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[Jim Williams]

path_finder:

Although my ego demanded it, I didn't include my patent itself as I have posted it here before, but I included it again now. I was quoting from it as it had been issued in 1965 and expired in 1982.

As it never became popular like the mouse, I never had any trouble with lawyers or courts fighting over it. I just get to have the memory of something I invented becoming owned by ever human being on Earth, which is a good feeling.


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[path_finder]

Dear Jim Williams,
I understand your point of view.
The big difference with your former patent could be the highest interest of any working wheel. In that case your situation could be much more critical.
Everything is a question of relative concern regarding the size of the market and the possible amount of royalties. If your invention don't disturb any big corporation and if the amount of received royalties allow to to pay the lawyers and inspectors, why not?
IMO this is not the case for any gravitic engine. (only a personal opinion!...)

[AB Hammer]

path_finder

LOL If you have a running wheel and they don't. Where is the proof? Outside of an attempt of theft and then you counter sue. You simply make them pay dearly. Oh yes, don't forget to keep it in the public eye. Make sure the people know that they are trying to keep an energy source out of the peoples hands. Green energy and earth saving, should be your cry. Come on! it is not weapon, and it will create new jobs all over the world. If it has power to truly generate without being the size of fairest wheel for each house. Otherwise it will be only an office toy. But you can still make money that way. The real crime is not trying.

[path_finder]

Dear AB-Hammer,

The real crime is not trying

Alamogordo: the crime was to try...
Today I'm really sad: during a long time I belief that the computer industry will be a big opportunity for creating a lot of new jobs, and less hard.
Fifty years later in fact we observe this industry distroyed much more jobs than creations. Where is the benefit?
In Africa where I'm spending a lot of time, there are still a lot of unefficient jobs (p.e: packing after the cash register), but this allow a family for live.
The key of the success is not a plenty of money. Most important is your personal contribution for the mankind happyness.
I'm just investigating the way to publish everything, revealing the data under the GNU license (like Linux) per example, but absolutely NOT under a standard basic patent protection.
When the diffusion will be a worldwide pandemical process, any patent will be 'superfétatoire'(Superfluous).

[Jim Williams]

I have a number of inventions but only one patent. My motivation for each invention is different. My motivation for my patent was no more than I enjoyed water skiing. My motivation for a gravity motor has been first to do something for the benefit of mankind.

I would make it very public from the beginning. I think obtaining a patent would be one way to make sure it is published, while it would also allow me credit for it as well. My "profit" would be having done something for someone else. My guess is such an invention would be wildly popular, but since I would release the rights to humanity, other people would have no reason to fight for it as they would own it free and clear anyway. I'll stick to my other inventions to attempt to make monetary profit.

[AB Hammer]

path_finder

You need to look also at motivation, and ask why?
Here is mine. I am a 50 year old handicap blacksmith, who can not hold a regular job due to the unpredictability on my legs collapsing. This also means little hope for a good peaceful retirement, but a living hell to survive. Sometimes you just don't have a choice but to ask. What is in it for me?

[Michael]

That's sad AB, because as a humanitarian I have to ask, what if this whole thing never works out?

[AB Hammer]

Michael

Well you have to have faith, and a desire to survive. Then realize that each thing you do is pure survival, and work from that standpoint. When in 1996 I had just moved to KY. and was only there a month when a drunk driver hit me head on making my car look like a coma. excess of 110 mph total impact ( my wife and I had to be cut out of the car). I was self employed doing armour/blacksmithing. Well I was not able to work and my insurance only paid me $200.00 a week to survive. The old farm house that I moved to had no running water and we had to bucket it up from the well. The $200.00 a week only last for a few months and the other insurance starved us out for over 2 years for settlement, and then only pennies on the dollar of what it should have been. So despite of pain I worked what I could. So as you can see I have already had a taste of what it could be, and only by innovation did I survive through what most people would consider near impossible odds.

So I have had to survive by my innovation and I use that same determination to find out what it takes. From this quest I have 3 other inventions to pursue but lack the extra money to do so at this time.

If it is Gods will that I be the one to have this invention, then it will be.
If it is Gods will that I have to fight for every penny the rest of my life under difficult odds then let it be.
But there will be one thing for sure. I will never stop fighting as long as there is breath in my lungs.

[Jim Williams]

AB Hammer

I'm glad to hear you have three other inventions. For myself my one serious attempt at a wheel resulted in an unrelated invention that actually does well.

The reason for this post is to encourage you to pursue those inventions. There is a great deal that can be done through the Patent Office website that doesn't cost anything but time. Using Advanced Search it's possible to do rather complete patent searches. After that is over and you still have a unique invention, a search can be made for manufacturers that have already bought the rights to similar inventions in the same class/subclass including their names and addresses.

My experience is by doing these searches that even before the question of the expense of a patent comes up, one has a good feel as to whether one has a viable new product a company will be willing to buy. Good luck with your pursuits regardless.

Jim W.

[Jim Williams]

PS: Use Index to U.S. Patent Classification system (at the very top of the Manual of Patent Classification page) to find your invention's class/subclass

[AB Hammer]

Jim Williams

Thanks