New ideas
Doug has got all excited in his latest blog post on the potential for patents in the Moth class.
I do tend to agree with him. In an ideal world we’d all share, innovate and improve. But we’re a long way from ideal.
It does make me wonder what the response of the Moth class would’ve been if Fastacraft had’ve jumped the shark and patented their foil control system. I’d say there would’ve been a decidedly frosty reception from the already anti-foiler establishment back in 2003.
Anyway. I hope the ideas that are subject to pending patent are published eventually, and that they’ve got signed authority for all future rights and patents from the original inventors.
I think it might cost more than a free sail to get those signatures.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:14 am
“In an ideal world we’d all share, innovate and improve”. From the learings of Starlin, Lenin and Castro.
October 17th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Who is “Starlin”?
October 17th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Sorry Wayne. I do come from a banking background, excuse the typo. I was of course referring to one of your comrades Joseph Stalin. I think you should get off Scotts blog and back to your budget. Your party is looking more and more incompetent with economic management as the days pass. $36 bill back in the sky rocket your gonna do it tough to beat that old boy!
October 17th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
The Bladerider can’t patent anything on a current moth.
According to the Australian Patients website:
“Another alternative [to patenting] is to openly use and publish details about your innovation. This will prevent someone else obtaining a patent for the same thing, but could also allow your competitors to freely use your invention for their own benefit.”
As EVERYTHING that a moth is has been openly published it is IMHO non-patentable. The only thing that could be patented are production processes or anything else that has not been shown to the public.
And that is without even considering “prior-art”.
I won’t be loosing any sleep over this one.
Bruce
October 19th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Couldn’t find anything in USPTO’s patent applications for a couple of obvious searches that I tried.
Get the feeling they might be confusing Patent with Trademark?
October 19th, 2007 at 9:22 am
A quick patent search found Hydrofoil Mounting System and Single Sided Tensioning of a Membrane within a Frame. Not sure where more detail can be found.
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
don’t I suck at searching the uspto
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
make that ip australia (damn I couldn’t even find the free search form there)