Dear Mr. Davidovits: Thank you for your work. I've played with some of your chemistry and was impressed. I corresponded with an inventor back in the 90's who had patented a silane-based ceramic system years before. We concurred that the patent system is broken/doesn't work, that industrialists typically wait for patents to expire, then some university research fellow "discovers" something similar, repatents and sells to firms who provide university grants, endowments, or some such. It's a closed system that really discriminates against bright outsiders. We would be living in a different world were it not for the indifference of commerce, whose seasoned participants behave like a pond of gators.
Dear Mr. Davidovits:
Thank you for your work. I've played with some of your chemistry and was impressed.
I corresponded with an inventor back in the 90's who had patented a silane-based ceramic system years before. We concurred that the patent system is broken/doesn't work, that industrialists typically wait for patents to expire, then some university research fellow "discovers" something similar, repatents and sells to firms who provide university grants, endowments, or some such. It's a closed system that really discriminates against bright outsiders. We would be living in a different world were it not for the indifference of commerce, whose seasoned participants behave like a pond of gators.