On 02 Aug 2004 16:50:21 GMT, (MKloepster)
wrote:

What _is_ there to protect a person from struggling to spend a long
time developing something up to saleable level, or at least
manufacture level, and then somebody else with more noise and money
simply taking it over?


There isn't any. So what? Isn't the greater good better served by having
innovations quickly brought to market by those who can do so at a competetive
rate? Remember, people innovated long before the USPTO and its foreign
equivalents came into existence.

I'm having trouble understanding your point of view. What ever the
laws maybe or the reality of their implication it doesn't seem right
to leave it wide open. Like a copy write on a book , if someone can
copy it cheaper the week after it came out it's ok? Or trademarks ,
with fake McD arches on burger stands?

Your trolling right? Reminds me of Atlas shrugged (?) by Ann Rann