Posted on 04/17/2021 8:12:14 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
You are correct. But, you have got to have least have a convincing blueprint. I tried to patent an idea for a clockwork ceiling fan gone used in areas without easy electrical access. The patent would have been easy. Getting someone one to make it was the hard part.
I never said it wasn’t
I know that, I thought you might want to read the link.
I did go and read it thank you sorry about my laspes into being a karen BTW loved the movie
Critical Race Theory being one.
I don't want to be argumentative - I know next to nothing about the patent process - but I don't understand what I've read.
If the Navy is filing for patents on their game changing inventions, won't enemies look at the patent filings and copy what the Navy has invented?
Sure, the Navy can file for patent infringement but that has never stopped the Red Chinese before.
It looks to me the Navy would want to keep their game changing technology secret, not make a public filing.
Hi.
Long time ago I had the highest security clearance you could have in DOD (Army). Plus MOST of the time I also had “need to know.”
During that time, at certain TDY assignments, I didn’t have clearance because I didn’t have a need to know.
Don’t ask.
5.56mm
I hear they have a participle accelerator over in Europe.
I blame the decades-long shift of the movie business into comic book crap.
As my mother would say - there’s never been a weapon invented that wasn’t eventually used...
You have good question there.
I know a little biut about the patent process, being licensed to practice before the US Patent Office. So, a couple basics ...
The point of patenting is, in general, to make inventions public. Protection is territorial, a US patent is the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the claimed invention only in the US. China can make and sell anyplace else in the world without infringing the US patent.
But this general point has a carve out - there is a patent procedure that relates to classified material. Those applications and granted patents do NOT get into the public.
See https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/48/52.227-10 <- Filing of Patent Applications - Classified Subject Matter.
If this was secret, there is a process nby which the Navy can file a patent application and maintain the secrecy. They don’t want this stuff to be kept secret.
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