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Good topic, Grant. Thanks.
I will enter this thread more than once as time unfolds.
http://utrf.tennessee.edu/faculty/Impact_of_PD%202-16-09.pdf
speaks to some of Grant's points.
Great Grant topic!
And thanks, Grant, for introducing a new term that is bound to stick! Like
it: CoolIP.
Now we have three going:
FairIP Award the innovator. Use Google search to find the innovator. Award her or him, if you use the innovation. Dare to share!
CoopIP Cooperative IP for cooperations, collaborations, collectives, patent pools, ...
CoolIP Really neat and "cool" IP getting someone's special attention!
I will enter several times the thread you started here, Grant. Good topic.
On topic: for Big Energy, will people in democracies act
strongly on AWECS effectiveness merit beyond the inventors battle?
Tethered aviation Manhattan Project? The U.S. government had rights to 1970s
and 1980s AWEC patented tech enough to install a
wind replacement for Big Oil; such tech is in public domain. Will the people of
U.S. act now while awarding creative builders and operators to install Big Wind?
JoeF
Grant,
Thanks for the thoughtful post. We should debug fairIP/coopIP as needed to
prevent your nightmare scenario. Note that the Flash of Genius movie is about a
small-patent-holder/inventor robbed by Ford Motors. FairIP/coopIP, on the other
hand, is an EXPERIMENTAL way for little-folk to avoid the "wrecking struggle" of
patent war. Such disclosure gives up patent rights, replacing them with a
voluntary "honor system". The sanction reserved is a right to ridicule & boycott
any VC effort to commercialize key ideas without cooperative relationships with
creators.
Yes, the Idol Bashing & Selsam-Santos debates are tedious, but they do weed out
the less diligent & easily offended from the forum. I have very high hopes for
Joby Energy's transparency & agility, especially when they openly stumble &
laugh; but Google/Makani has hidden shortcomings still unclear to outside
observers. Let the business press continue to fawn over marketing-driven AWE
while smart investment carefully weighs our inside critiques,
daveS
Grant, you wrote-
"what if some big ugly corporation was using your idea for free for military
uses and a lawyer came up to and said he could get a multimillion dollar
settlement which you could then donate to the charity of your choice. Some
people would be tempted to break their voluntary promise of placing it in the
public domain. This is how corporate lawyers see the problem. So, they would
advise their boards steer clear of the whole mess by not using any IP that's
ownership was at all ambiguous."
Any lawyer can figure out how to make friendly mutually binding FairIP/CoopIP
agreements, its simple contract law. Without such a contract a creator still
only gets a year to repent (only) in the US, so your steer-clear-or-get-sued
fear is not open-ended. The key intent of our defining a critical mass of CoolIP
is so that those of good heart can deliver AWE to the needful without fear of
the coercive patent abuse as seen in global pharmaceuticals.
Will you be paying "Bimodal-Kite" royalties? ;^)
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Here's a DRAFT patch against AWE FairIP/coopIP overclaiming abuse-
Disagreements over AWE FairIP/coopIP can be brought by any interested party for
arbitration by an AWEIA Peer Jury.
The AWEIA Peer Jury shall be free of direct conflicts of interest.
A failed Claimant of FairIP/coopIP under the AWEIA process shall desist from
ridicule or boycott of an alleged abuser.
Right of appeal to a new Peer Jury is accorded by AWEIA Board as an evolving
understanding of any dispute warrants.
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NOTE: FairIP/CoopIP is not created for military use. If "Cool IP" scares "ugly"
corporate boards away from militarization of AWE, that's really cool. Cleantech
greenwash renewable-based "endless war" is a legitmate fear. An AWE arms race is
already initiated by US military-industrialist profiteers, which will surely
trigger the Chinese Regime to simply out-manufacture Daddy Warbucks. As Wayne
German first called for, there should be a global ban on military AWE, just like
the ban on military bio-engineering. Companies who base a biz plan on
militarization without considering the risk of a ban may lose.
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Sept. 14, 2010 note: "Its hard to remember, but i think we gradually
converged on "Cool IP"
as the short term for all that is meant by our hybrid fair/coop/open-source IP
concept
It was somebody's typo or mistaken reading of coop that created it. It is
flexible appealing & concise,
a nice comparative term with all the other IP models.
The suggestion is that CoopIP & FairIP concepts merge under the CoolIP tag."
ds
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