09/12/2023
I hesitate to over use the word obvious but, I am deep in the weeds of my third start up. It’s a SaaS Web2.0 software service business model bringing age-old collab sociology to bleeding-edge technology & (hopefully) bringing my family passive income for generations like the Sackler Family but with actual Health&Care XR.Sindy
My second startup was a box of little lights https://www.seelightbox.com/. It sold to 212 universities and art student leagues around the world over 10 years and paid for a few of my twins’ trips to Disney World. Not a success by business standards but the many many lessons learned sit as paperweights on my desktop as I write this.
PATENTS are stupid. I formed this opinion in 2002 when Josh Abbot, a very reputable DC-based patent lawyer, filed the drawings for our LED/Fiber Optic Model Lighting System. All of you out there that bought my LIGHTBOX and the thousands of you that have designed with it know it was unique for the pre-viz industry. Stan Kaye Shannon Schweitzer & Kenton Yeager to name some other brilliant model lighters might even agree that even tho we stole the idea from and , what we pioneered was new.
The “obvious” rejection we got from the was that what I had built was an “obvious” conclusion because 1. In 1922 someone got a patent for building scale cardboard model boxes of theaters 2. During WW2 someone patented sculpting miniature dancers to sell as 1/24 dolls & 3. In the late 70s someone got a patent for moving lights!
So today, NPR tells the linked story on Marketplace (Some of the names in this story may have been changed to protect the innocent). Here is a direct link to the full legal paper https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4399&context=faculty_scholarship
begging me to ask: Should I try to patent seamlessly integrating the dynamics of Wellness Circles in the Meatverse??? AND IF YOU THINK I SHOULD….what court will be there to defend it in front of when Zuck steals it?? F this current industrial age bullsh*t and bring on the Decentralization asap. I think it’s a fair request to live on the grid without the pirates in my pockets perpetually.
You too?
Patented items are everywhere, says Janet Freilich of Fordham University, and you've probably infringed several patents today.
