So why did you post it 187 times?
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I haven’t looked at this in some time, but as I recall all, or nearly all, of the patents that the feds have confiscated have been some form of military weaponry or something directly related to national security. I see the probability of an attempt to take patents for medications somewhere in the zero to none range. Of the 11-12 million patents that the US has issued, fewer than 6,000 have been confiscated. I do recall that there was some discussion in the 70s that DoD was considering confiscation of the early patents for solar power panels. That would have changed things.
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I wish they would seize mine. No body else wants it 
What is it for?
I could give you the number but it would identify me. It has to do with automotive technology.
Then I will never use it.
I am not a car guy.
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From time to time I hear people say they want to patent something and I tell them to sit down lets have a long conversation. It is a long expensive process. Unless you are in the industry and actually are going to make the product and really need IP protection stay away.
Although it just wasn’t a whim in my case, I did work in the industry for a period of years and had several manufacturer contacts.
Don’t tell me it was for intermittent windshield wipers.
LOL no but my patent attorney told me all about that debacle.
My neighbor used to work for ATT and would get a bonus for any patent that he got for them.
They got the rights, but there is no way he could have done the work to get it pushed through.
Now I need to know what that is about.
Me too. I Googled it and found this.
Good article.
Gave up $30 million to prove a point.
Side comment, and I forgot to mention this earlier. Another trick that I figured out is to quickly click ctrl-A when opening an article, then click ctrl-C and then paste that into a Word document. It does not always work (the Boston Globe site for me), but I use that to read articles from the Buffalo News and I just used it for an op-ed piece on the New York Times.
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