Patents
Patents
Someone mentioned in another thread that if Polywell works, it may end up like the cotton gin. Enough people would ignore the related patents that they would be, in a practical sense, unenforceable. What do you think? Should the inventors go open source? Perhaps some variation of an open patent would be better?
Re: Patents
Low royalties that mostly go to a science foundation might work.rj40 wrote:Someone mentioned in another thread that if Polywell works, it may end up like the cotton gin. Enough people would ignore the related patents that they would be, in a practical sense, unenforceable. What do you think? Should the inventors go open source? Perhaps some variation of an open patent would be better?
It is all a matter of the cost of lawyers vs royalties.
In any case there is no doubt that every major country would build an "experimental" model for research on which there would be no royalties.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.