Thanks for your reply, Blindman.
I am happy to hear of your success.
I have also been in the game a long time. I have found that the reaction to inventors / inventions varies according to the industry. In the auto industry, inventions are (generally) received fairly. However, in the consumer electronics industry and the IT industry, this has not been my experience. I got an inventor of the year award for an invention that sony said was 'excellent - brilliant'. But I never got any reply from them, or any of the hundred odd other 'name brand' cos I contacted. 'No name brand' cos (OEMs) did appear to deal on the level.
I appreciate your sentiment that inventors are often their own worst enemies, and partially agree with it. What is the solution? Make a law that only MBAs or DBAs are allowed to invent things?
Or do we make a patent system that accounts for the realities of the invention situation?
You never get near a negotiation table, so you don't get a chance to prove whether you are your own worst enemy or not!
In the case I refer to in my posting, there is an area of technology which appears to approaching its limits, and this is limiting the growth of a related area of technology. I have an invention which increases the performance of the first technology by a factor of three, which would greatly facilitate the second area.
I have proven the invention; though design of a related noncritical area is beyond my area of expertise.
I have approached many in the industry (with NDA of course). All have agreed with the design, or should I say none has found reason to criticise it, or to dispute my (demonstrated) ~ 300% performance increase. However again I have had zero response from industry. Inevitably after they learn of your technology, you will not hear from them again; and you cannot contact them in any meaningful way.
In this case there is one company which needs this technology more than any other. They are disadvantaged compared to their competitors, and their corporate strategies must be designed around the limitations of the first technology.
However I find when I try to contact them, in good faith, mutual advantage, etc, etc, etc, that I receive no reply from them, but my correspondence is being forwarded to my competitor! Or should I say to the company which would be my competitor were I to get my invention into production.
This represents collusion, restraint of trade, interference in commerce, etc, all of which are proscribed activities under the RICO act.
Regards,
Screws21