I highly recommend to exclude patents from the points, really.
To get a patent you need only pay patent fee and prepare papers according to standard. That's all. You don't need your "invention" be real at all. If you have few thousand dollars you could trash, you could easily get a patent on magic wand made from polypropilene or voulcano creating apparatus based on cordless drill. Just pay fee and fill papers.
Patent absolutely does not mean that device described working as described, could be built or even implementable at all. Nobody in patent office cares if it exist or could be built. Only thing they care about is thar there is no such thing in previous patents and fee you paid and that's all.
I don't know where from that stupid belief that if something is patented it was for sure somehow implemented and working. Times when that was the case ended in the very beginning of patent system. Patent office needs money, not proofs of concept or real things. You have to be completly ignorant about how patent system really works and what it is, to use a patent as a proof of anything.
Mostly they used either for patent trolling when some corporation patent something obvious nobody even account as an invention, either for pleasing self-importance, either to allow corporations to harvest any useful inventions for cheap.
Old idea of protecting rights and business interests of some engineer who invented something useful for humanity is not there for a long time.
May be some of patents could be registered to deceit adversary or competitior, but hardly without real implementation this goal could be achieved. Nobody will spent money, time and efforts without solid information about implementation of invention in real life.
What are your opinions on the patents that are classified by the government? A lot of conspiracy minded people think our energy problems have already been solved but since it would collapse an entire part of the economy by providing low cost energy to the masses it's been hidden. Anything too revolutionary that affects the status quo can easily be kept from the public while the inventor gets the old Pablo Escobar question
What are your opinions on the patents that are classified by the government?
It's still patents, not blueprints of real things.
A lot of conspiracy minded people think our energy problems have already been solved but since it would collapse an entire part of the economy by providing low cost energy to the masses it's been hidden.
Tons of patents with such claims are in database. None of them ever was proved replicateable.
All that bullshit about some astonishing invention that was banned by government are bullshit. Unlike some celebrity rumors, inventions could not be "closed" or "banned" once they were proven replicateable. Even if invention completely erased along with inventor, somebody else will inevitably reinvent it soon. Hiding patents could not prevent it.
Meaning you can take the payoff or disappear.
Science and engineering does not work like that. Every inventor use existing knowledge as a foundation. It is inevitable that someone else will reinvent same thing if foundation is ready for such invention.
Every single story about "free energy" and bought/deceased inventor I know shows obvious signs of scam. Every single dude who claimed something like, never even thought about publishing full and exact instructions on how to replicate his "great invention". Smart enough to make "great invention", but complete idiot to not release invention to wide public to prevent problems from those who obviously will lose billions. It is impossible.
The only proof that invention is real is independent succesfull replications. Not some "demonstrations", not some patents, not some stories. Only successful independent replications.
When inventor of such thing began to mumble something about commercial secret or secret ingridient, do not allow unlimited studying his prototype or doing other shit that prevents straightforward replication by others - it is 100% scam.
And that stupid mumble s about "business interest" is complete bullshit fundamentally if we talk about free energy. With free energy money completely lose any sense. Money itself become obsolete, not some industries or corporations. It is just insane to think about money and profits when you invented free energy, because free energy is the end of money.
I highly recommend to exclude patents from the points, really.
To get a patent you need only pay patent fee and prepare papers according to standard. That's all. You don't need your "invention" be real at all. If you have few thousand dollars you could trash, you could easily get a patent on magic wand made from polypropilene or voulcano creating apparatus based on cordless drill. Just pay fee and fill papers.
Patent absolutely does not mean that device described working as described, could be built or even implementable at all. Nobody in patent office cares if it exist or could be built. Only thing they care about is thar there is no such thing in previous patents and fee you paid and that's all.
I don't know where from that stupid belief that if something is patented it was for sure somehow implemented and working. Times when that was the case ended in the very beginning of patent system. Patent office needs money, not proofs of concept or real things. You have to be completly ignorant about how patent system really works and what it is, to use a patent as a proof of anything.
I'm of the opinion that patents can be used for disinformation quite effectively.
Mostly they used either for patent trolling when some corporation patent something obvious nobody even account as an invention, either for pleasing self-importance, either to allow corporations to harvest any useful inventions for cheap.
Old idea of protecting rights and business interests of some engineer who invented something useful for humanity is not there for a long time.
May be some of patents could be registered to deceit adversary or competitior, but hardly without real implementation this goal could be achieved. Nobody will spent money, time and efforts without solid information about implementation of invention in real life.
What are your opinions on the patents that are classified by the government? A lot of conspiracy minded people think our energy problems have already been solved but since it would collapse an entire part of the economy by providing low cost energy to the masses it's been hidden. Anything too revolutionary that affects the status quo can easily be kept from the public while the inventor gets the old Pablo Escobar question
Meaning you can take the payoff or disappear.
It's still patents, not blueprints of real things.
Tons of patents with such claims are in database. None of them ever was proved replicateable.
All that bullshit about some astonishing invention that was banned by government are bullshit. Unlike some celebrity rumors, inventions could not be "closed" or "banned" once they were proven replicateable. Even if invention completely erased along with inventor, somebody else will inevitably reinvent it soon. Hiding patents could not prevent it.
Science and engineering does not work like that. Every inventor use existing knowledge as a foundation. It is inevitable that someone else will reinvent same thing if foundation is ready for such invention.
Every single story about "free energy" and bought/deceased inventor I know shows obvious signs of scam. Every single dude who claimed something like, never even thought about publishing full and exact instructions on how to replicate his "great invention". Smart enough to make "great invention", but complete idiot to not release invention to wide public to prevent problems from those who obviously will lose billions. It is impossible.
The only proof that invention is real is independent succesfull replications. Not some "demonstrations", not some patents, not some stories. Only successful independent replications.
When inventor of such thing began to mumble something about commercial secret or secret ingridient, do not allow unlimited studying his prototype or doing other shit that prevents straightforward replication by others - it is 100% scam.
And that stupid mumble s about "business interest" is complete bullshit fundamentally if we talk about free energy. With free energy money completely lose any sense. Money itself become obsolete, not some industries or corporations. It is just insane to think about money and profits when you invented free energy, because free energy is the end of money.