elephant wrote:I'm a little skeptical about this kind of "coffee shop" talk of "the friend who"
I demand proof: the number of the patent: although bought back, it remains published and which will prevent us from talking about it and tinkering at the bottom of our garages
Unless "the friend who" has been invited to destroy all traces of his work, the company then undertakes to file a broader patent encompassing this discovery (in case ...) without giving any clues to it. arrive.
To make more clear:
1) Smith discovers a Pantone fixture for the first time at the back of a garage.
2) She persuades the inventor to give her his plans and his prototype "for analysis" against a sum representing in her eyes "all the gold that the Earth has produced in 100 years for the use of people" (La Fontaine)
3) She files the patent for an "orange juice vaporizer" TM
, the claims vaguely including the words "usable in any type of thermal machine".
And voila :
1) The mechanical characteristics of the reactor are protected: no replication possible without the agreement of Mr Smith,
2) Very smart who will associate this patent with energy savings!
As I said elsewhere: the patent is a recipe. If you do not know the knack of the chef, you will have to experiment a few years in the kitchen before arriving at the same result ...
Example: Do you remember this inventor who inadvertently forgot to leave the instructions for his WFC, before leaving for a world Meyer?