Spinshooter, how about some facts, there is no Lemulsky, there was a star inventor Lemelson, who has made fortunes on patents (and at his death donated the great majority of these fortunes to a Chair in MIT, if memory serves), not by learning how to handle the system, but by being creative and inventive. Read our constitution, you'll find out something about the reasons the patent "system" is in place. If you follow what is going on in the "intellectual property arena", you will find that big business, including GE, GM and few others have put tremendous pressure on Congress to change our system to make it almost impossible for inventors to reap the rewards of their work. Inventors are fighting back, however, and so far have managed to block the "first to file" (rather than "first to invent") drive big business was trying to get written into law.
As for Damadian, he may not be a great business manager, but he is a king in the world of innovation and invention. Pick the Dec/Jan 1998 issue of Investor Digest and you may learn a little. It will make you a better commentator on these matters.
Last, as far as GE is concerned, they loathe innovation, their motto relative to inventions and inventors is "Who wants to be a pioneer? Pioneers have arrows in their backs".
Zeev |
