Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[first mike]

employees of company A will be saying they did it first and employees of company B will be saying they did it first...

Which is why some documentary time stamped proof is essential in determining priority of discovery.

"I respectfully submit that you might benefit from a basic course of study in Intellectual Property law."

a little common sense goes a long way...sometimes when you try to make yourself an expert on something by googling, you just confuse yourself...

its similar to a car accident where the passenger is the wife of the driver..technically she is a witness and her statement is taken...but seriously, how much weight do you give it when her statement is exactly the same as her driver/husband?...

Common Sense?
So you are comparing the workings of patent and intellectual property law, a system that has been developed all over the world over the last 200 years and whose proceedings are normally presented to a judge or a board of examiners, - to your imagination of how things work when a tort dispute is brought before a jury, - based upon all of the movies and television shows that you have seen and "common Sense".
Respectfully, I have spent my entire career involved in patent and IP law, not as a patent lawyer but as a researcher in active and hotly disputed areas of industry.
I have taken that basic course in patent and IP law, taught by leading professional corporate patent lawyers.
I was tasked by Bell Labs to examine a portfolio of patents and determine which of them was worth the fees and time to extend.
After my retirement from Bell Labs and Telcordia and SAIC I have been paid real money by a patent law firm to serve as an expert witness in court in patent disputes.
This seems to me to be a bit deeper background than "sometimes when you try to make yourself an expert on something by googling, you just confuse yourself".
Perhaps I am not the one confusing the fantasies of popular entertainment dramas and "common sense" with objective reality.
This is not a "reality TV" game show.
You do not get to form cliques to "vote someone off the island"
Patent disputes are settled on the basis of hard evidence and real accomplishments in the world of physical science.
The invention we were talking about 3 or 4 postings ago was disclosed to others skilled in the art at two or three different organizations supported I am sure by multiple hard documented time stamped paper and audio and video recordings, and has been REDUCED TO PRACTICE!
There is no possible way for Davis' precedence to be argued in court.
Unlike small claims courts and TV dramas real patent examiners and real patent courts would refuse to hear any such case without massive documented physical evidence such as can not be produced and can not be "manufactured".

Mike L.