Posted by John Collins (194.164.38.65) on May 23, 2003 at 14:12:15:
In Reply to: Message for J.C. posted by D. on May 23, 2003 at 13:59:40:
: If you don't believe in patents then why have you yourself applied for one (or many)?
Excellent question! I thought like SK that patents were the way to go. It wasn't until I applied for one and got initial approval for a "rotating mechanism" that I realised that this was just the start of a big expense for reasons stated earlier. I also realised that if I posted anything about it before I had the first piece of registration then I couldn't patent it. If I couldn't patent it then neither could anyone else.
Also here in the UK, the patent office has a permanent staff working for the government security who check each every patent for any potential national security risks and if they find something then they bury it and demand silence about it. Clearly every country runs something similar. You may ask what risk could a gravity wheel hold? I don't know for sure but it seems to me that if something might have a detrimental effect on the tax revenue from fuel then that might be regarded as a potential security risk and require some kind of restriction?
As for my patent application - I cancelled it.
John Collins