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shmokes:
The disparity in legal resources between giant corporations and individuals or small businesses is the reason god invented the contingency fee.  And contingency fees are tightly regulated, Xiaou.  A lawyer can't take 95% of an award.  Limitations typically look something like this:


--- Quote ---Under Business and Profession Code Section 6146, a contract for a contingency fee to represent any person seeking damages against a health care provider may collect 40 percent of the first $50,000 recovered. The scale then allows collection of 33 percent of the next $50,000 recovered, 25 percent of the next $500,000, and 15 percent of the next $600,000.
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Don't get me wrong, the Sonies and Microsofts of the world have a ginormous legal advantage.  But that's not a defect of the patent system.  It's a defect of the entire judicial system and, more importantly, capitalism.  

As for patent officers stealing inventions and falsifying dates and false imprisonments and murdering applicants, well, that just goes with the territory.  If you want to patent a product you gotta be willing to deal with a few piano-wire wielding clerks at the patent office.  Seriously, Xiaou, that's just the sort of thing that kinda needs a citation.   :laugh2:

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 11, 2010, 11:47:34 pm --- The people who succeed, are people who have friends in Powerful places...  and those
people are forever locked in place.  Their souls Sold.  Forever in some form of debt,
and more than likely, some unscrupulous predicaments.

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Where do I sign up?

RayB:

--- Quote from: shmokes on January 12, 2010, 02:01:44 am ---Seriously, Xiaou, that's just the sort of thing that kinda needs a citation.   :laugh2:

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How can there be citations when they've all been silenced by the Illuminati?

shmokes:
True that . . . I'm kinda surprised they keep letting Xiaou live, frankly.  He seems to be quite Savvy to their schemes and intent on spreading the TRUTH.  It's quite possible that his ability to make a person's heart explode from 1" away simply makes him a tricky and difficult target.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 09, 2010, 02:21:50 pm ---
 You got me wrong.  I look on this as "Its very possible". 


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For me, i look at this and say "It's very unlikely this works". The onus is on the claimant to prove it. Seems to me this is something really worth proving...
And from what i saw in that video, all they had to display was a very inefficient motor/dynamo  :dunno


--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 10, 2010, 02:22:09 pm ---
 Most average people dont file patents until they are near production level.
Filing a patent isnt easy or cheap.  Which makes it Extremely difficult for the
average joe who had a great invention, and Should be able to make money from
it.


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I shouldn't but i'm going to argue from a selected instance. In this case, my friends father. He invented  external plastic louvres for the rear window of cars. He was an average Joe. he managed to patent it, AND take his former boss to court for trying to steal the rights. He did this with a public defence lawyer no less. He later sold the patent for what seems to me a pittance, but he was never good with money. There was never a time when he could have produced this himself.

HA! Now I talk about this, do you know what he's been working on for the last ten years or so? And having different people give him money for research. Go on, i bet you can't guess  ;D

I always felt embarrassed when he'd show me his latest iteration. I never had the heart to tell him it wasn't going to work. I'm a wuss like that...

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