I tend to dislike the idea that I have to relinquish my employed status
to be able to explore an idea that might be worth looking into. Let's =
say
I do chemical work for a pretty big electronics company. I do not do
engineering, and only look at the chemical processes, but by observing =
a
pick and place machine, I think of a way that could do this for almost
nothing and fifty times faster. Now, just to explore this idea I have
to quit my career, make all the stuff and still I won't be sure that my
ex-employer won't sue the heck out of me for using something I tough
of during their employment. Wow, that sounds like such a good deal. =
Might
as well never even try. But then technology isn't making a new step =
ahead.
Wow that's sounds like something to help the advancement of technology.
I didn't agree with Marc A. until I read this last post.

Just my 2=A2 worth,

Alain Savard, B.Sc.
Chemical Process Analyst

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ross [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: January 31, 2000 9:54 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] patents

At a company I used to work for, I swear to God that the patent =
statement
basically said that every thought that I had, expressed or otherwise =
was the
property of the company.  I work in the electronics industry, but lets =
say
one day we were tossing back a few and I came up with an idea of let =
say
"Feed mayonnaise to Tuna fish before you kill them, this way it is =
pre-made
when you can them."  I use this as a ridiculous example however, this =
idea,
although not related to electronics is legally the property of that =
company.
Although I worked for them for 12 years, I kept my mouth absolutely =
shut and
the first thing I did after I quit was to write down all my ideas and =
mail
them to myself.  This way before starting another job, I had a legal =
basis
of time establishment as to when I came up with the idea.  Now if one =
of the
ideas gets developed, my new company won't get jack squat.

Patents work, unfortunately, private industry pays MUCH better than
government work, so now we have a bunch of non technical numb nuts =
working
in the patent office.  Hey!  I am going to patent Oxygen.  I hope you =
are
all ready to pay my hefty licensing fees ;->

Patents were NEVER meant to allow the idiots to patent the things that =
they
ended up being able to patent.  Patenting naturally occurring genetic
material is criminal.  I mean lets say I got some of that stuff =
floating
around in me.  What now?  I got to pay for what naturally occurred?  I =
think
we need a nice new virus that kills lawyers and anybody whose IQ is =
below
that of a telephone pole (politicians).  I'd pay to license that one...

Mark Ross

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