That's the problem with IP protection through security, leaks are not necessarily theft in a legal sense (the only one that matters commercially). Even if there may be individuals who have signed non-disclosure agreements etc and then leaked info, it is only them and the organisations they work for who are liable, unless the recipient paid them and knew they were breaking such an agreement - inducing breach of contract may be hard to prove if it was cash in brown envelopes.
If dekaflion were really crafty then as soon as they knew details they would have published in some obscure bee-keeping newsletter, to prevent Rossi getting any patent filed after that point. Besides which if defkalion know the formula then they can just sell it on to less scrupulous types. Being realistic there is simply no way that Rossi could keep the Genie in the bottle after the world knew it worked - going through his drains or garbage from his work places, collecting dust samples, other surveillance, bugs, examining who his suppliers were, insecure computers and documentation etc. No doubt a number of governments (guess US, Chinese, Russian) and organisations (OPEC?) have already done this. It will be very interesting to see what patents emerge from unexpected sources in the next year. Any one of these govts can also manufacture evidence that they knew about it ages ago, or legislate away any IP issues. Seems to me that unless Rossi has a valid patent filed some time ago (or even if he did) he is almost certainly going to get screwed - which is why his only sensible play was to get a big powerful partner early on. On 29 November 2011 14:09, Aussie Guy E-Cat <[email protected]> wrote: > It is still theft. No way to spin it any other way. > > AG > > > > On 11/30/2011 12:29 AM, Alain dit le Cycliste wrote: >> >> it looks like what I say about patent race... hard to keep an IP from >> creative competitors... > >
