Re: Lurker


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Posted by Lurker (66.222.49.43) on May 25, 2003 at 11:03:22:

In Reply to: Re: Lurker posted by Vector Viper on May 25, 2003 at 01:14:06:

That's a VERY good question. Why go through all of the trouble and hassle of patenting something if it does not work? Remember too that patent offices supposedly require a working model of a device, or at least a solid theoretical expectation that the device will work, before a patent will be granted. The very fact that a patent has been granted would seem to give reason for expecting that the device will work.

However, there is the possibility that something else is going on here as well. This is the concept of a "red herring". Disinformation, in other words. Let's say that you are a "bad" person who knows the secret of how these devices work, and you wish to keep this secret for yourself. One way of doing this is to give false hints about how the real working devices work. So, you create a bunch of bogus machines and patent them, with the help of some bribe money to the patent office, of course.

We now have a situation where there are large numbers of patents of machines that do not work. As a result of this, thousands of inventors waste their time trying to build these machines, and after they have wasted all their time only to find that the machines do not work, they give up in frustration. This is exactly what the "bad" people want. Now, the "bad" people can have the working devices all to themselves, and everyone else believes that such devices are impossible.

: I have to say here, SUPPOSEDLY most of these do not work,
: but I admit too, why patent them if they don't?




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