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Vision :
Welcome, Dear fellow independent inventors,
We, inventors from all over
the world, exert effort, invest money and sacrifice our unpaid time in the quest
for the unknown through competing to sustain our marathon in the invention journey,
hoping for wealth and recognition.
The invention journey is full of missing links, misleading signs and shortage
of deserved support that make us scramble all the way. The journey satisfies
our desires to invent while turning a blind eye to making profits, to say the
least. Therefore, we are gamblers of a different type, where no one loses when
we win. In fact, everybody wins when we win. The sad thing is, we lose 99% of
the deals in order to win once and devote it to human welfare.
During that journey, we are merited sometimes, but the merit becomes scarce
in comparison to our individual and total devotion. In fact, there is a huge
group sacrifice from our side as inventors. To prove just that, I have made
a study to quantify the magnitude of a partial sacrifice exerted from one million
worldwide independent inventors during the patenting process in the United States
Patent Office alone.(This study was extracted from the good comprehensive statistical
reporting of the USPTO)
The study was made on more than one million patents issued from the USPTO for
independent inventors from all over the world including US inventors, during
the period from 1977 to 2004 (twenty seven years). With simple calculation,
and having in mind that only 1% of those patents get to the market, there are
one million issued patents are hanged on the walls, only to remind those unsuccessful
inventors of their troublesome journey.
The sacrifices are dramatic. We paid 15,000,000,000 USD (fifteen billion USD)
as patent fees to the USPTO if we take an average of fifteen thousand USD for
each patent. We spent more than 13,000 years (thirteen thousand years) in innovative
thinking, if we assume only five days for each patent. We spent more than 54,000
years (fifty four thousand years) in following up our patents, if we assume
only fifteen days for each patent.
Having said that, and even though that this dilemma is known to patent offices
around the world, no one cared about our loss, or even brought it to people's
or media's attention, even though we own more than 30% of worldwide issued patents.
Has not the time come, dear inventors, to find solutions for our own dilemma,
figure out an exit from this disaster in order to utilize our enthusiasm and
desire to innovate, and let the outputs pour into our own pool of interest?
The answer is "yes we can" if we allow our huge domain of positivity overcome
our individual minor negativity. The answer is "yes we can" if we unite our
efforts. The answer is "yes we can" if we share what we know and exchange ideas
in how to commence just that. Therefore, join me in my dream. A dream that will
help us all expand our innovation and commercialize it.
The dream is to establish our own global organization that will incorporate
worldwide existing expert houses in idea polarization, patent search, patenting,
prototyping and licensing. This can be done by founding a global company that
carries all our general and individual knowledge and technical needs on its
shoulders. The share holders will be independent inventors from all over the
world and a few selected investors in the field of innovation.
Of course, information technology is our main asset in this project. We must
use it to the utmost to prevail.
Count me in the dream
Share your views with me,
Yours,
Dr.Khaled Alrasheed