Re: OCCUPY MOVEMENT: TALE OF THE TAPE - MR. X SLAYS THE AGATARDS!

In article <bs2dneW8V8iYt4_SnZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
RichL <rpleavitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To be fair to Rich, I have no idea of the equipment
requirements of his specialty and the related costs.
It's easy to see how that could make it impossible to
do other than work for someone.

Well, I gotta say that I do appreciate Clod's honesty here.

I guess we've all seen old movies of inventors working in their basements,
but in modern times these are rare exceptions. Just go through some
randomly selected patents on that USPTO site, and check out the "Assignee"
listed. That's who owns the patents, and 99% of the time it's the
inventor's employee. It's rarely the inventor.

Never heard of Silicon Valley?

Software innovations are not only patentable, but are achievable without
a massive infrastructure. Woz & Jobs aren't the only ones.


In my case, all of my patents involved the use of hundreds of thousands of
dollars of equipment (above $1M in the case of the laser patents), and not
only could I not afford to have purchased it, it wouldn't all fit in my
house.

Patents owned by a startup I was part of in the 90s were developed on a
couple of thousand dollars worth of equipment at the beginning. It was
bought out for roughly US$100M after roughly 5 years work by roughly 100
people.

Point being that if one wants to extend themselves there's ways to exploit,
rather than being exploited. Of course, if all one wants is a nice safe
cubicle where the computers always work, that's there too.


I'm not an "inventor", I'm a physicist. There's a difference. If I wanted
to make money primarily from inventions, I'd seek out areas where one guy
working alone could come up with new stuff. My employment, as for nearly
every other scientist, is to come up with new stuff that benefits the
company/organization I work for. Having some of that be patentable is a
side benefit (mostly for the company/organization, as I said).



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