Voip Pal Com Inc (VPLM)

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I have an MS in Materials Science and Engineering. Traditionally educated, I used to doubt all these reports also until someone asked me and my father for help on his invention. It really worked great, and during the Carter years when fuel was so scarce, we thought contacting the DOE through my dad's connections would be a first step. WRONG. That got the project completely stopped with serious threats to the inventor.

There is phony stuff for sure, but this experience with the government industrial complex was a real eye opener to me, and started me on a quest to find out what real paradigm shifting discoveries were out there. It turns out that there are quite a few of them, and the fastest way to bury them is to keep them secret from all but the Government Agencies. The USPTO has a whole section of non public patents. Inventors are sometimes cautioned against continuing work on their devices. There are also regulations against patenting certain things even if they are proven to work.

BTW, adoption to practice of VPLM's patents, even though there was no compensation, could also be considered as paradigm shiftng.