I wholeheartedly agree with Rudy's comments.
I have several patents, and have won awards at the last two companies
where I worked for intellectual property development. However, many of
the companies I currently work for as a consulting engineer no longer
wish to patent their technical developments, as they find they seldom
get to sell the license to use. Instead what happens is that they
release the patent only to see the new technology quickly stolen and put
to use by China and other countries that abuse patent rights the same
way they do human rights. The same happens with large companies that
have the dollars to fend off a patent lawsuit. Not to sound like a
pessimistic American, but a much more pragmatic approach is to
completely document the process or product and hide it from the light of
day, and/or patent it under a completely different title or technology
description.
Pragmatically speaking, patents are only an expensive method of
advertising for the company or the inventor. There is no value in
patenting for protection; the opposite is usually the result. All of
this coincidentially began to happen in the 1950s, when American
technology took off in leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the world.

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of R Sedlak
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:08 AM
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Subject: [TN] [NTC] An unfortunate sign of things to come...

There is an important difference between "inventions" and patents.

Patents may have slowed, but it does not mean that "inventions" have
slowed.

My company has virtually suspended patenting ideas because patents are
currently virtually unenforceable in many parts of the world, and serve
really as road maps on how to steal technology.

When we do patent, the examples given in the patent will never actually
work in the commercial world.

Rudy Sedlak
RD Chemical Company




      

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