"Jim Lux" wrote in message
...
JIMMIE wrote:



I also assume they know their business, I also assume that if they
tested the antenna they actually collected qualitative information if
they knew their business. It seems obvious to me that this data was
intentionally left out . Deception by ommission.

If the inventor does not want these types of assumptions being made
then he should provide all information to clarify the issue.


Jimmie

Not necessarily. Patents are a strategic weapon in the technology
business. Your best bet is to have your patent have a sort of vague title
and have text that isn't likely to show up in a cursory search (harder to
do these days, since the PTO's search engine works quite well). You'd
have just enough detail in the disclosure to convince the examiner to
grant the patent, and have lots of claims that cover a lot of various
schemes. Then, if someone else builds something that covers the same
general application, there's a high probability that your patent "might"
be infringed, or, more importantly, that there's a possibility. If they
are already in manufacturing (i.e. have invested significant dollars in
the product), then it's easy to negotiate a license and royalty, just to
lay to rest the risk that you might file suit and force them to stop mfr
and distribution.

The LAST thing you want is enough detail to let someone figure out how to
design around your patent or to unambiguously determine that their new
product isn't infringing. You WANT vagueness, because from vagueness
comes liability uncertainty, and the elimination of that uncertainty has
definite business value.

The other reason to build a patent portfolio is that it allows you to
cross license other patents that you might need to infringe to build your
device. Imagine if A has a patent on female screw threads and B has a
patent on male screw threads. A could make nuts, but not bolts; and B can
make bolts, but not nuts. However, if A and B agree to license each
others patents, then between them, they can control the nut and bolt
market, without money needing to change hands. Again, vagueness works to
your advantage here.

Go look up "submarine patent" for more details on how this works.


Dont think I metioned patents at any time. On the other hand if you want
someone to buy your new miracle whiz bang antenna you either let people know
how great it is with data from a reliable source or you omit your data
giving vague discriptions to pull in the suckers. I dont think an affidavit
from the testing facility on measured field strength compared to a full size
antenna who have endangered his product.