A friend I made several years ago told me of his encounters with
patents. He was a WW II vet, used his VA to get an engineering degree,
became a highly regarded, and respected knowledgeable expert in the
Lighting Protection, and EMP (electromagnetic pulse) field. Who held
many patents in said field. He lost a small fortune trying to protect
his patents from infringement. He told me a patent is just "directions
for someone to steal your idea". He sued, and sued many companies with
deeper pockets than he had, and just ran out of money.
Norm Parmley
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Relative to your design, assuming it would pass the obviousness test (or
that is, passes because no-one is going down this road and it was
obvious they knew it was there), you could get a patent on it, if no
one, otherwise, had filed for such in any country. OK, I'm not a lawyer,
and I'm explaining this from the view point of a "common man" who has
been involved in patents.
Some time ago, I filed the paperwork for a patent involving the coupling
of more than one DC power generation unit (don't confuse this with
Generators vs. Alternators) to a common workload.
Because I was doing something incredibly simple, almost text book, I was
able to defeat an argument before it was raised by stating in my
paperwork that everyone trying this was going after very complex
circuitry when diodes would solve the problem of "Kirchhoff's law" and
back flow of current through the parallel generation units.
I abandoned this patent when I found that in the EAA chapter where I was
in TX, two different builders had done this without knowing that other
people were ignoring the simplicity....
What I was after was being able to have two or more
generators/alternators (any combination) of the same "power band"
(e.g., 12-14VDC, 24-28VDC, etc.) be able to power a load and have one of
the units fail and the other automatically pick up the load w/o a pilot
having to do anything. My thinking was, you lose an engine in a
multi-engine aircraft and you don't really want to be dealing with
rudder, throttles, props, and mixture along with flipping switches for
power.
This could also be an issue for emergency vehicles, fishing vessels,
etc. People dealing with a dead alternator/generator need the lights in
the dash to work while the other equipment is functioning (many truck
bed platforms have the original electrical wiring with additional wiring
for a HPO Alternator to drive pumps, lights, etc., and being able to
handle the original power system's needs if that alternator dies, would
be nice...).
Back to the EAA guys: I could not go forward because their aircraft were
flying with this circuitry that predated my initial filing by about 3
years. And my paperwork did what I really intended -- made this
non-patentable (this should have been done in the early '70s with
silicon diodes...)
So, I mentioned this so that you might want to do the research on your
"invention" and see if anyone has done the thing you are doing. You may
find that in your claims you have to be quite specific, rather than
being generic with multiple "sub-claims".
Again, I'm not a IP attorney, don't play one on TV and did not stay in
whatever that hotel/motel is that they talk about.
Lastly, YMMV.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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