[SEL] Paint Mixer-Off Topic

[Mark Shulaw]

Hi Skip,
  Thats so true. If the patent office has nothing on file like it they will 
likely get a patent. Many times things get invented and built just for ones 
own use or for use in their shop or business and thats likely what grandpas 
was. And folks just simply never do anything other then use them. There was 
a need it was figured out how to satisify the need and that was the end of 
that. So many years later someone has the initiative to patent it as their 
idea when they do the same.  And truely they may very well have figured 
their version out themselves without ever knowing someone else already did 
it. This happens so many times.
  Patents are funny things. You can have an Iron clad patent but if you do 
not have the money to defend or enforce it then its not worth a darn.
  Their ad says
>A new Mixing device with patent pending made from 306 stainless that way 
>we can offer a life time guarantee for all kinds of products and goods 
>that need to be mixed up to perfection for applications on construction 
>sites and Home use.CURRENTLY SEEKING INVESTORS FOR THIS PROJECT.

I hope they make a million on it.  GRINNNN.         TTYL,    Mark

At 03:36 PM 5/6/07, you wrote:
>I didn't notice if it had a patent number with it, but, all you have to do
>is prove to the patent examiner that you have a novel and patentable
>improvement on an existing patented tool or whatever. If they agree, you
>have a patent and a big target on your back. It takes an expensive patent
>attourney to make an unbeatable set of claims, if you do it on the cheap
>somebody can improve on it and on and on and on. If you do do it the right
>way, somebody will say they had it first. Now that's an expensive one.
>Skip


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