[Stoves] Patent Protection or the Lack of It

[ksmith46 at frontiernet.net]

This is my first time posting to this list but hav monitored it for 
some time. I found this site from the woodgas group I belong to and 
have built several Midge stoves on different designs. Why don't the 
list start a commity that would regester either the person or company 
with the commity. Drawings and paperwork would be at that location 
other than in the patent office. After a couple of months, if the 
person wanted to patent the idea, then you have a record of the device 
other than the patent office. I don't believe in patents mainly because 
of greed. Greed from the patent offices and if the project is very 
useful, its not allowed to go forward anyway. This way the stove 
commity would be the one to say it will work and the person could then 
manufactor and sell it without putting it on public display where it 
could be stolen.
This list is doing a great service and I should be more active in 
helping I guess. One thing I will say, as I don't have much time 
anymore to test things, has anyone tried to use a Vortex in the chimmey 
of a stove. I am thinking if one could get the stack hot, then the 
twisting air should give more vacuume to the primary air without a fan. 
This should also work on a short chimmey to lift the air higher 
simulating a taller chimmey than is.

Thank You
Ken Smith

Quoting Harry Stokes <hstokes at blazenet.net>:

> Dear Dr. Karve,
>
> Your words are very wise.  When others take credit for your ideas, you know
> that you have won the argument.  This is an old saying among politicians.
>
> For the thoughtful person, finding the answer and successfully conveying it
> is worth more than a fortune!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Harry
>
> P.S. Congratulations on the recent Ashden Award
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Central channel combustion stoves.
> WasRE:HensonCenterFiure Burner System
>
> I agree with Richard that it takes a lot of money to defend one's patent and
> that the true winners are lawyers on both the sides. We have for instance
> registered the design of our Sarai cooker. But a multimillionnare capitalist
> has blatantly copied it and is selling it. We are just too small and too
> poor to sue him. All we can do is to congratulate him for having decided to
> do what we wanted to do,  namely to disseminate our technology!
> I consulted an industrialist friend of mine about this. He told me that the
> life of a patent is about 17 years. Any clever lawyer can keep the case
> before the court of law undecided and pending for that period, and after the
> 17 years are over, the case is thrown out, because the cause for litigation
> does not exist any longer.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>