Innovate or Perish

Best thing you could do would be repeal the patent attorney industrys patent reform called 'Second to Invent' (or was it 'First to Steal'?) No, No, its name is first to file. Biggest fraud on inventors ever. Pushed by lamar smith 'to bring the US into line with other countries!?'

No other country has first to file.

Pres about to sign.

Goodbye innovation.

Some chinese factory far far away will be pumping it out before you have finalised your patent anyway. Haha.

The provisional patent application can assure you of a priority date even though you are unable to file a non-provisional application with the claims and formal drawings, etc. So it's easy and inexpensive for an independent inventor having limited means to win the first-to-file race. The only catch is that you have to file your formal non-provisional application within a year.

First-to-file gives security to independent inventors by eliminating the defense of big companies that they thought of it first and have been using the technology all along but keeping it a trade secret. Publication of pending patent applications gives independent inventors a way to bring their unpatented technology to the attention of potential licensees without going through an NDA. Lamar Smith is not one of the bad guys.

Today's competitive market conditions calls for any product or service with a real difference. Most of the people learn the product manufacture techniques, develop contacts and spread their wings to start their ventures, just for selling some thing cheaper than the mother company's market prices. This calls for a competitive cost reduction tendency among industries, leading just to total suicide.

Any venture should be designed with new concept products, services & bear real worth about, what is the critical difference it means to its customers and the advantages it claims.

Patents, designs based ventures should be encouraged so as to encourage innovation which is the real journey of progress.

Saturation & stagnations without new insights shall only lead to darker futures.

Experimental risks are worthy and are part of the progress game.