Anyone with a geoengineering idea that seems potentially viable and commecially valuable and who wishes to get funded by someone who has commercial interest should not be discussing those ideas in this forum. They are essentially published here and therefore anyone (first to file) can get a patent worldwide but for the U.S. where first to invent is the 'inventor'.
In any case if you you do have an idea write it up in a bound notebook with numbered pages, initial each page, sign and date at the end and get it witnessed. That is the means to prove first to invent. You can file a USPTO provisional patent to get the process started for a nominal fee. If you have no commercial interest but think the idea has commercial value find someone who does; like the organization you are affiliated with for example, and establish some plan to seek funding. If you have any questions feel free. I do not need to know details. -gene -----Original Message----- From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com [mailto:geoengineer...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Lockley Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:41 PM To: Geoengineering Subject: [geo] patenting ideas I am interested to know if people think we should look to patent geoengineering ideas? Without a patent, it may be very hard to attract R&D funding. I know there's a patent on Fake Plastic Trees, but I don't know of any other patents for geoeng technology. A --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
