If a 14 year old build his own plane in 1978, that would certainly be a personal accomplishment.
HOWEVER
The 14 year old cannot truthfully claim he invented the plane. Specially if he followed the blue-prints someone else created before hand. Invention requires that you create things on your own.
This is exactly the case here. He claims he invented something that was already running commercially at least 5 years before. And that there was a RFC BEFORE his claim of invention.
Since he repeatedly did try to make people believe something that has being proved over and over to be false. Is not a case of a simple error on his part. Is an overt case of fraud.
To paraphrase Tesla. "Is not that they stole the idea from me. Is that they do not have ideas on its own." And he did believed what he said. As he had no problem with Marconi using concepts on his patents without paying. It was the ones that didn't do anything to further science that got in his nerves.
If the guy is so brilliant. Then, what has he invented afterwards?
It use to be that you could not patent an idea, but the implementation of an idea. That is why all cars have 4 wheels, a transmission and a steering wheel.
Then the patent office decided to give patents for ideas. At least in the software industry. If you did the same to the car example, company B must use 3 wheels, because company A patented the use of 4 wheels. Meanwhile company A cars have to be driven with a stick, because company C patented the steering wheel.
I am sure glad that patent office where a relative new invention. Otherwise we we all be living in caves, because someone patented the way to make fire. And pushing things over the dirt, because another one patented the wheel.
Patents based on ideas is the arrogant notion that just because I thought of something (or more likely my employee thought of something), no one is as smart to think of it on their own, so they must have copied me and must pay. Anyone with half a brain and an at least an ounce of integrity can see that they are just plain wrong.
The world might not owe the individual something, but the individual does not anything to the world either. If the world expect us to follow rules, then the world must give something in return, otherwise there is no moral obligation AT ALL of following the rules.
However, most of the time, the world does give us something back for following those rules.
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If a 14 year old build his own plane in 1978, that would certainly be a personal accomplishment.
HOWEVER
The 14 year old cannot truthfully claim he invented the plane. Specially if he followed the blue-prints someone else created before hand. Invention requires that you create things on your own.
This is exactly the case here. He claims he invented something that was already running commercially at least 5 years before. And that there was a RFC BEFORE his claim of invention.
Since he repeatedly did try to make people believe something that has being proved over and over to be false. Is not a case of a simple error on his part. Is an overt case of fraud.
To paraphrase Tesla.
"Is not that they stole the idea from me. Is that they do not have ideas on its own." And he did believed what he said. As he had no problem with Marconi using concepts on his patents without paying. It was the ones that didn't do anything to further science that got in his nerves.
If the guy is so brilliant. Then, what has he invented afterwards?
Arrogance of patents.
It use to be that you could not patent an idea, but the implementation of an idea. That is why all cars have 4 wheels, a transmission and a steering wheel.
Then the patent office decided to give patents for ideas. At least in the software industry. If you did the same to the car example, company B must use 3 wheels, because company A patented the use of 4 wheels. Meanwhile company A cars have to be driven with a stick, because company C patented the steering wheel.
I am sure glad that patent office where a relative new invention. Otherwise we we all be living in caves, because someone patented the way to make fire. And pushing things over the dirt, because another one patented the wheel.
Patents based on ideas is the arrogant notion that just because I thought of something (or more likely my employee thought of something), no one is as smart to think of it on their own, so they must have copied me and must pay. Anyone with half a brain and an at least an ounce of integrity can see that they are just plain wrong.
The world might not owe the individual something, but the individual does not anything to the world either. If the world expect us to follow rules, then the world must give something in return, otherwise there is no moral obligation AT ALL of following the rules.
However, most of the time, the world does give us something back for following those rules.