As the coordinator for a believe tank which occurs to operate on line, I am continuously talking to innovators, inventors, and creative geniuses about their tips and latest new ideas. Now then, I will admit some of these concepts are totally ridiculous, and absolutely laughable, but others do make a lot of sense, and some of them could even change the way we live. Frequently they solve the challenge in our society or civilization, or they make a business enterprise more efficient, or make our lives small much easier.
They say that "necessity is the mother of invention," and there is in all probability a decent amount of truth to that, at least from my own observations and experiences. And every single time we seem to have a dilemma, someone comes along with a answer, and an invention or innovation to go along with it. However, ahead of they can take their invention to the marketplace, they have to go and get a patent. It's wonderful how considerably it expenses to get an actual patent filed, to do the patent search, to fill out all the paperwork, and then you have to wait.
We hear a lot in our society about "winning the future" and all of that seems to strike a chord with America, we are saying yes, we want to progress mankind, we want our nation to be on the leading edge as we enter the future, and we want our innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors to go out there and get it done. Yes, that is a noble calling, and I think that Americans are willing to answer that call. But it is just ludicrous, and insane for us to make them jump via so quite a few hoops, and to come up with thousands of dollars to file a patent, that income could be made use of designing their 1st prototype in their garage.
It seems our society is busy crushing small business enterprise entrepreneur, and participating in crony capitalism for free political war chest credits via significant corporate lobbyists. We are doing everything in the world to crush the small guy, and then we are asking that middle class, those producers to pay significantly more in taxes. Are you kidding me? Apparently not! We are led to think that that is the way to move our nation forward. I would say to you America - that it's not.
Last month I read a really intriguing article in the LA times, in the smaller business enterprise section on July 11, 2011. The article was titled "Patent Bill Creates Worry for Independent Inventors - US Legislation Would Alter the Program to Paper Those Initially to File Suggestions," by Cynthia's Zwhalen. The write-up noted that the average patent took 33.9 months to attain, and that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has a backlog as of Could possibly 2011 of 703,000, 175.
Those statistics are fairly scary, even a lot more scary than the cost to file a concept patent, by the time you get performed with the drawings, the patent search, the patent attorneys, and the filing fees - fundamentally, you're very easily searching at in between 15,000 to 25,000 dollars. With out a patent someone will just rip you off, steal your idea, and mass create it in China and then sell it all more than the globe. It does not make sense to participate in a game that is rigged.
Worse, we have a terrible issue with intellectual property becoming stolen from Americans. And if we are to win the future, we want to guard ourselves, and we require a little bit of tea, and a small help from the federal government to go out there and aid us. As soon as you file a patent, it doesn't mean something, you nonetheless have to defend oneself, and hire lawyers to go soon after any person who tries to rip it off, which expenses a lot alot more than filing a patent.
Not to mention the reality that if a Corporation has somehow violated your patent, they could run you out of income, mainly because they have in-property lawyers, until you lastly have to give up. That just adds insult to injury to the nearly three years it took to get your patent, and all the price you've already put up front. The globe needs these inventions and innovations now, not just for option power, new transportation devices, and much better merchandise and services that are safer for the environment, but we also will need that so businesses can get began, and start hiring Americans, and get people back to function.
The federal government says it is working on the difficulty, and maybe it thinks it is, but when I appear back and scan the last decade, all I see are all the complications that they've designed with an enormous bureaucracy which has gotten us to this point, rather than put us in the driver's seat, in the initial location. I would submit to you that every thing all of these gentlemen are carrying out to fix the problem, isn't working, and we would have been much better off without having any of it, we should really have saved the dollars. Please take into consideration all this and think on it.
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