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daestrom
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:24 pm
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"Bob Eld" <nsmontassoc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"Dan Bloomquist" <public21@lakeweb.com> wrote in message
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Bob Eld wrote:
nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu> wrote in message
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Bob Eld <nsmontassoc@yahoo.com> wrote:

US code says it's strictly illegal to make even one, for your own
use,
in your basement.
Please site the law that says that.
It starts with Article 1, section 8 of the US constitution, and
continues
through Title 35, Part III, Chapter 28, Section 271, Paragraph (a) of
the US Code. Subsection (4) of Paragraph (d) says refusing to license
others, ie "shelving" is OK...

A patent grants a property right to the patent owner. "Trespassing"
without the owner's permission is illegal.

Nick


Nowhere in any of those documents does it say that it is illegal to
make
even one in your basement. Cite one case where tresspass law has been
applied to patents.

In Europe you can freely use patented material for non profit individual
use. In the U.S. the patent holder could litigate.

Cite one case where patent grantees have not had to
pursue their rights and claims in the civil courts to gain a remedy for
infringment.

Probably won't find one as the cost of litigation is not worth the minor
infringement.

Yep, the patent holder could litigate but the cost of litigation prevents
most trivial cases against minor infrignment. The point is that it is not
automatic nor is it a matter for criminal law, the district attorney or
even
the patent office to uphold a patent. They don't care who infringes on
whom,
it's up to the civil courts and only when a suit is filed.


And IIRC, if the holder fails to pursue infringement litigation too often,
the courts have sometimes ruled that he's given up his rights to it. So a
small time inventor is 'damned if you do... damed if you don't'. If he
doesn't pursue widely known infringements, he usually can't change his mind
later on when someone like Microsoft or GE decide to start infringing.

daestrom
Buy_Sell
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:34 am
Guest
I think that the point was that it was an extremely efficient method
of producing hot water. There is a global requirement for being able
to produce hot water more economically, so it might not seem so stupid
after all.

That's what I like about public forums, you get all sorts of people
who think inside the box. Once in a while, someone thinks outside the
box and the skeptics come out of the wood work. BTW - I'm a bit of a
skeptic myself but I would like to believe that somewhere on this God
green earth, there is a better way of doing things than the present
way.


On Mar 1, 3:57 am, Sevenhundred Elves <sevenhund...@elves.invalid>
wrote:
Quote:
Buy_Sell wrote:
You think that idea is great, have a look at this idea. Even NASA got
involved to help out with this project. These are commercially
available but it seems only for big industry. I envision this idea
being of use in every household across the planet. Can you image
getting steam heat from water in only 3 seconds by nothing more than
mechanical movement? It sounds impossible but do a bit of research
and you will see that this idea is for real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh_-DUKQ4Uw

They say it's a perpetuum mobile, an over-unity machine. If it is, why
don't they use it to produce and sell energy? If it isn't, it is a
totally stupid idea to run a machine just to make heat.

S.
Sevenhundred Elves
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:57 am
Guest
Buy_Sell wrote:

Quote:
You think that idea is great, have a look at this idea. Even NASA got
involved to help out with this project. These are commercially
available but it seems only for big industry. I envision this idea
being of use in every household across the planet. Can you image
getting steam heat from water in only 3 seconds by nothing more than
mechanical movement? It sounds impossible but do a bit of research
and you will see that this idea is for real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh_-DUKQ4Uw

They say it's a perpetuum mobile, an over-unity machine. If it is, why
don't they use it to produce and sell energy? If it isn't, it is a
totally stupid idea to run a machine just to make heat.

S.
Sevenhundred Elves
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:39 am
Guest
Buy_Sell wrote:

<top-posting rearranged>

Quote:
On Mar 1, 3:57 am, Sevenhundred Elves <sevenhund...@elves.invalid
wrote:
Buy_Sell wrote:
You think that idea is great, have a look at this idea. Even NASA got
involved to help out with this project. These are commercially
available but it seems only for big industry. I envision this idea
being of use in every household across the planet. Can you image
getting steam heat from water in only 3 seconds by nothing more than
mechanical movement? It sounds impossible but do a bit of research
and you will see that this idea is for real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh_-DUKQ4Uw

They say it's a perpetuum mobile, an over-unity machine. If it is, why
don't they use it to produce and sell energy? If it isn't, it is a
totally stupid idea to run a machine just to make heat.

S.

I think that the point was that it was an extremely efficient method
of producing hot water. There is a global requirement for being able
to produce hot water more economically, so it might not seem so stupid
after all.

As for the economy of the thing, consider this: The machine has to be

powered somehow, most likely by a diesel engine. Why not use the diesel
(or some cheaper fuel) directly, to heat the water in a boiler? It is
not at all economical to build an engine that (in the case of a diesel)
converts heat to mechanical movement and then back to heat again. The
engine has to be built and maintained, which costs energy, raw materials
and labour. The same reasoning applies to using an electric motor. It is
just adding an unnecessary step.

S.
Solar Flare
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:48 am
Guest
Here comes a blurred software programme to prove his new idea.

"Bob Eld" <nsmontassoc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Quote:

nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu> wrote in message
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Bob Eld <nsmontassoc@yahoo.com> wrote:

US code says it's strictly illegal to make even one, for your
own
use,
in your basement.

Please site the law that says that.

It starts with Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, and
continues
through Title 35, Part III, Chapter 28, Section 271, Paragraph
(a) of
the US Code. Subsection (4) of Paragraph (d) says refusing to
license
others, ie "shelving" is OK...

A patent grants a property right to the patent owner.
"Trespassing"
without the owner's permission is illegal.

... Cite one case where tresspass law has been applied to patents.

No thanks. I'd rather argue with people who can spell :-)

Nick

Ha! Gotcha....Can't do it can ya.


Solar Flare
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:54 am
Guest
More perpetual idiocrasy again!

"Sevenhundred Elves" <sevenhundred@elves.invalid> wrote in message
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Quote:
Buy_Sell wrote:

You think that idea is great, have a look at this idea. Even NASA
got
involved to help out with this project. These are commercially
available but it seems only for big industry. I envision this idea
being of use in every household across the planet. Can you image
getting steam heat from water in only 3 seconds by nothing more
than
mechanical movement? It sounds impossible but do a bit of research
and you will see that this idea is for real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh_-DUKQ4Uw

They say it's a perpetuum mobile, an over-unity machine. If it is,
why
don't they use it to produce and sell energy? If it isn't, it is a
totally stupid idea to run a machine just to make heat.

S.
Mitch Dickson
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:43 am
Guest
I understand the use of patents quite well. But, when it
Quote:
comes down to a patented concept that could do so much good to reduce the
increasing need for energy in heating and cooling homes, I sometimes
wonder
if the greater good would not be served by some public or private program
to
compensate the inventors and release it to the general public.


That is a right communist thing to say Jim. Private property rights gave us
the world advantage we used to enjoy (pre-socialist agendas) Smile No
incentive, no inventions. "Thou shall not steal" still holds true.

Mitch
 
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