Patents are key

Information is not the same as Knowledge. The two are often confused these days. I would define Knowledge as the capacity to find, digest, frame and retain Information. Knowledge occurs when curiousity and discernment meet.

Wisdom has a long view, and being young in my current earthly incarnation I feel it would be presumptuous for me to try to define that essential idea.

Patents are a key to much information, and certainly to the kind of information that concerns commerce, science, and their intersections.

I have recently become aware that a great deal of information can be obtained by searching the U.S. Patent office.

In fact, many concepts which generally are considered far-fetched, far in the future or all-out tin-foil-hat looney can appear more realistic, if not validated, by the U.S. Patent Office.

I was first intrigued when I learned about a patent for weather modification technology.
See patent no. 4,686,605.
At

US Patent Office

Or see my posting re: Weather Modification below or at

iowaskies.blogspot.com

I soon began searching around the patent office website myself. I found this intriguing example:

Artificial Intelligence

Most recently, I was directed to this info on:

Behavior Modification

I apologize for posting so many links. I don’t generally like websites that just link to other people’s stuff. But there’s no way for me to reasonably include it all here.

One of the great features of the Net is you can link instantly to a connected thought and explore a subject further.
Or, if you want, you can ignore it, close the window and go look at some kind of pornography.

I recommend interracial-Alien-docudrama mentalpornography.


(Illustration courtesy of Brady Chrisman, Esq.)

But seriously. If someone is granted a patent, that means the material has been reviewed to the point that it deserves financial/copy protection from any other source.

“A U.S. patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor(s), issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, "the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling" the invention in the United States or "importing" the invention into the United States. To get a U.S. patent, an application must be filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

More at:

US Patent Office

Patents and their cousins, copyrights and trademarks, are serious biz-ness. The unusual extension of the Mickey Mouse copyrights to Disney for 20 years gave Walt Disney Corp a huge chunk of CA$H.

The home page of the US Patent Office clearly states the agency is a divison of the Department of Commerce.

In my horribly logical brain the above leads me to believe that if someone files a patent, whether it is on electrical circuitry, polymer glue, Mickey Mouse, behavioral technology or weather modification, that the patent filer (and/or backers) intends to prevent other people from selling those patented devices, items, representations, methods/processes, etc. in the United States.

I would think, If you don’t want someone else to sell something, it must exist. That, or there’s a very elaborate hoax – a conspiracy, you know.


-J.A.H.