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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Dear AD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I agree with you move to reject, but the USA definitely has a search and verify. But it works like this: you can patent something that works in an unusual and novel manner, without having first to build one. It is the idea that is patented, not the working device. First to think of it, not to build it. The test is when you try to enforce it. If I build a working one, and you patented it, you can make my pay you a royalty. You would until that time have a patent on something that was not yet proven to have value, if you get what I mean.</p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>The public or shall I say the common view is that a patent is issued on a working device which is new. This is not so. It is the idea. If someone invents a perpetual motion machine in his mind, he can patent it if no one else has done so before him and the idea is not in the public domain. But it remains for him to build one and prove it is works. The patent office does not examine the ideas to see if they are perpetual motion devices as that is a judgement call. Suppose one worked!! Then what? They couldn't refuse to patent it because of the <i>type</i> of machine it was.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>The reason patents exist at all, or a primary reason, is to give the conceptualiser the time needed to perfect the device to a commercial stage and to make some money while protected from unfair competition (copycat rip-off artists). The difficult and expensive part is turning the concept into a practical device, hence the protection given in return for making the knowledge public (in the patent document). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Some choose to do everything in secret and never reveal how the product is made, for example stealth paint technology. They just keep it secret for as long as possible even though it is in use for years. It is a trade-off for the public benefit: reveal and we the public will all give you some exclusivity for a while. It is not evil to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dear Stovers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I have no knowledge of the US patent laws but it appears that patents are granted in the U.S. without verifying the claims made in the patent document. I was recently approached by a U.S.citizen of Indian origin for commercializing in India a technology patented in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>He wanted to do something for India, and had therefore purchased this patent, which he felt would provide energy for practically nothing. He did not even want us to invest any money into the project, but only wanted us to lend our name to the marketing efforts. After going through the summary of the technology document, I realised that it was a sort of perpetual motion machine, and therefore .I rejected his offer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Yours<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>A.D.Karve<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>