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Originally Posted by milt
billy, you may have some patents, but what are you selling today? I'm not being critical, I'm interested in any success story and so is the OP. If you are getting royalties, you made my point in spades.
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Milt - you are a nice guy, heck so was zeke... I'm not going to get into a peeing match over this. This is what I get paid to do when I go to work every morning.
I am an engineer who has worked in R+D at various companies since 1997. Some of the stuff I design (invent) gets patented, most does not. Most things don't make sense to patent.
One of my more recent success stories is a horizontal multi stage completion system I concieved. In just over a year, this system has brought over $50M in work to the company I work for. It has been featured in several trade magazines, in the local news papers, and I was interviewed on camera for some kind of TV feature. Sadly, I don't get a royalty for this, merely a job with good compensation and excellent benefits. Getting this system off the ground took a major personal sacrifice in terms of extra time.
Getting back to the point I was trying to make earlier; Copyrights are for literature, artwork, and software code. Trademarks are for logos and trade names. Patents are for designs, methods, and a combination thereof. You can't copyright an invention nor can you register an invention as a trademark.