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From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M. Koloc)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Patents, How to get them?:-)
Keywords: patents
Message-ID: <1990Aug5.074419.23501@prometheus.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 90 07:44:19 GMT
References: <297@alix.UUCP> <7620@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <1990Aug2.122811.29219@mlb.semi.harris.com> <12134@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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In article <12134@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes:
>
>With the talk of the mega-lawsuits nowadays, having a successful patent seems
>impossible unless you have tons of money and an army of weasels in pin-striped
>suits to defend it.  How can the small-time entrepeneur hope to achieve success
>if some enormous conglomerate sics its lawyer-force on him and takes his
>marvelous invention away? 
>
>It's depressing to think about.

If the technology is commercially very viable and the patents are strong
"parent" type that can be built on with development of the commercial
item, THEN it's not such a problem.  Just find a mean, lean corporation
in Germany, Japan or the United States (there are one or two left) that
would be interested in taking an "exclusive" license for manufacturing or
/and distributing your product.  They will provide the resources for the
protection.  Also, make sure that your deal with the company allows you 
to have access to their research and that YOU license them for any further
patentable improvements you come up with.   That way your patent royalties
will be extended over both generations, and the since the original 
inventor (perhaps et al.) has applied for the improvement patents, the
courts are usually disposed favorably toward the granting of said 
improvement patents.   
                       With a modern desk top and
                         50K$ worth of software 
                      YOU can do the essentials of
                       A modest size corporation
                               So why 
                                Not?
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