Open Source Vs. Patenting

[nwman]

I say just take it to the guys on Myth Busters! That's my plan! j/k. I'm not sure if this has been commented on or no but you could also run the patent application through as if it was a toy or a piece of hardware. It wouldn't be red flagged as a PMM and you would still git the patent that would protect the design. If you can patent it in the major countries then I believe you have rights to all sales of the products in that country. That would be enough for me. Another thought is to take it to a university and have them stand behind you. Or like d3' said in a battle keep your friends close and your enemies closer. You may want to offer the Chinese a lease on the rights and have them build them for you. You could then sell them cheaper to the world then building them yourself. This does go against my belief in trying to keep jobs in the US though. Either way it would be fun to try and figure it out once you have something that works!

Tim

[Magnamotion]

@NWMAN
Either way it would be fun to try and figure it out once you have something that works!

Patent and get you or your family killed.... Dont patent, and have the last few years of your life, and all the money you invested in your invention wasted.....  Not my idea of fun.   Regards Frank

[2012]

If you want to save yourself and the planet, open source is the only way! Think about it!

If you managed to find a way to say, take advantage of a little known quirk in Faraday physics and came across a method of which to extract vast amounts of energy using 0 input (as an e.g) You will still make more than enough to live on and retire way more than comfortably.

Building units by hand in your garage, then a small workshop, while employing poorer single mothers to do the piece work for an exceptional rate...

So what you missed the global option, but they will know who you are, or not know, if that's what you want. ether way, you will have a thriving business that can expand into servicing very rapidly.....

No stresses, no stomach ulcers and no crooks trying to rip you off every single day of your life...

So make the website.......

Plans for members (Members subscription is $75 PA)

The fully printed kit plans are $200 (you think 400 million will be enough sales until Pirate bay and Bit torrent take over..even so, there are plenty who wouldn't know how to log into a password protected XP let alone find out what a bit torrent is, seriously!
I bet only 20% of people that have a computer know how to place a password on one!


The machine is $20 k (or whatever is reasonable) fully constructed and in kit form (made from sourcing third party help, i.e Poor single mothers..(Don't laugh, these people can't work full time but a chance to make $20 an hour is great, so long as it's on their time). Winding coils or making pressed parts, you supply the component making machine and show them how, they will love you!

So You won't end up a Billionaire, but is that what you want? If so, get out of this forum!
What you will do is this,,

Break the corrupt American Global Financial Systems back and send them into the pits of hell! (Not the Americans just the bankers riding on an Illegal system!, See Constitution, 1916, Federal reserve)

You will open up the entire world to better technology, you didn't think you would remain top dog did you? patent or not! This can only change our ways into the future for the future, political landscapes will change instantly as people become independent with energy, the markets will change and people living the high life now will find power and politicians no longer count for much. I'm not talking anarchy, just a change in methods and influence and a huge reduction globally in how big a government should be, or should need to be.


You will remove the need for Further Conflicts in the middle East and give the Rich thugs that would see you dead if you patent it the message that their little Kingdom is finished! and now they are going to be reduced to the Illiterate masses they forgot to educate) and a few of them will make allot selling plastics, if they are smart....

You will Save the world from Pollution killing us outright! When 1 Billion Chinese stat driving Carbon powered vehicles in the next 20 years, it's all over baby! No one will eat! No one can afford to eat! and only 1/5th of the worlds population will survive the Oil crash! i.e no oil! Imagine having to use wood / coal fired steam locomotives just to get wheat from East to west USA again?

So do you want to be Billionaire or a very wealthy human, personally, spiritually or otherwise alive and enjoying the precedent your efforts made not just for now, but for the entire future of humanity! As it is, there is a freight train coming and it's called fate!

You reap what you sow...

Do you think Searl would just be making a first demo for Patenting now, some 40 years later, if at the beginning of the internet boom he went open source? Imagine all those court cases he waisted time on, the cost and stress, more so the lost time! It would have happened 10 years ago, the Searl foundation! Imagine.......

So it goes open source, There it can be improved and taken to greater levels, all the time you have a hand in it and know that it will be you who gets the service calls and makes the newer models, plan sheets and kits for sale.....

Of course others will too, like how many flavors of Linux are there? But they will be mostly in other countries, counties and working to different conditions, some of which you don't want to deal with!

my 2cents

[ring_theory]

Is this open sourced enough?? However i still intend to patent it and retain all rights to the technology. As well as getting filthy rich in the process! Open source & patenting how dare I? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_armature

[2012]

I Will,

Open source, won't come under patent fires,, where as Patenting it is like hey you ill take that off you,you did not patent it, now read about the hypocrites talking about saveing the planet.


watch useing technology to destory the planet = http://youtube.com/watch?v=NrERPOBMO04  ,

also watch, deprave the world of food and useing gm to poision it even more to make people even more sick >  http://youtube.com/watch?v=JdvhNnM850w

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