Orbite Technologies Inc EORBF

RE:Industrial Patents

[hellohellokitty]

If it was that easy to go around a patent, there would not be a patent in the first place.

This is classic example of a mid-level basher post. Here is the breakdown:
Start by making a negative and doubt-inducing false claim. In this case he claims that patents are worthless.
Then to make it sound that he has arguments and is knowledgeable in the field related to his claims he gives lots and lots of details. But if you look closely at the details they are very shallow and don't back his claims at all. They are just smoke and mirrors.

Pinksheep wrote:
It's great to patent a invention, but if it's a process, it's easy to by-pass it, by changing some equipment (if it's a mechanical process) or by changing the chemical products (if it's a chemical process). In a treatment plant, to treat wastewater or mud, you have to use alkaline or halogen solution ( basic or acid products), cationic or anionic polymers. Rare metals, alumina, magnesium oxide and titanium dioxide, can be extract by concentrating them with many chemical products. You only have to change one with another that as the same ionic charge (same property of exchange) or change the injection points and the concentration of your solution, and you have a new treatment. If there's big bucks to be made with the red mud treatment, I can assure you that their patent will be easily by-pass by big player like John Meunier, Degremont and other worldwide company that I don't know of. Veolia knows what that for sure.