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To: Slagle who wrote (63123)	5/1/2005 5:50:45 PM
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Yes I go to phonescoop.com and engadget.com and they get patent info to show the new stuff coming out before the companies release it - but I thought they meant there were TOP SECRET level patents that the general public were not getting that the chinese got access too through that spy with his special security clearance - stuff like nuclear weapons - or is that in the open patent databases? As for the patent system coming online with clinton - I was just not paying attention at the time, but I do have a personal story. IBM when I was there had the lead in XRAY technology to make chips - lasers had been used - but laser light is wider bandwidth than xray so you can't pack things together as tightly - anyways it was going to be the future of smaller, faster, cheaper - but IBM shelved the XRAY technology and did not patent it from what I recall - was going to eat into current profit. The american researcher left - went over to Japan I think, started making the XRAY stuff with some large japanese company - they got the patent - and a while later IBM licensed the tech from that company - the very tech they funded the initial research on and shelved to protect corporate interests - how dumb right? I read a lot on slashdot.org - and in this world of evil megacorp I am inclined to side with the little guy and open secrets - tired of stories like that where benefits for the world are shelved for profit. I am for opening up our patents and secrets - but not if the chinese people are going to steal it all - make a lot of advancements thenselves and then not open thier secrets and patents up too. That has happened recently with carbon nanotubes where the asian labs were making some advances - initially sharing the research with thier western friends - then closing the doors and getting all hush hush. I am not worried though, good hackers are always going to be able to pry open the hallowed halls of slow government security. As for world energy supplies - does anybody remember MR. FUSION from back to the future movies? news.com.com

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