That's encouraging and I can understand how it would lose its' power if
enough people began to use it.



"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> wrote in message
news:1175mruhsdbuud3@news.supernews.com...
>
> Nowhereman wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks Cliff for your comments.
> >
> >> >
> >> that is why we have intellectual property laws. i find that many ideas
> >> are not actually stolen, but you can always use a good IP attorney to
> >> prepare a patent application.
> >
> > True, very true. John made a good point regarding patents when he said
> > " You could patent it, however if something is so simple that tens of
> > millions
> > of people would make it themselves rather than buy it then the cost of
> > defending the patent would be more than the income to be derived from
the
> > sales."
> >
> > I have investigated this here in Australia and made some progress, there
> > are also design registrations available which I am inclined towards that
> > might be suitable.
> > The real intellectual property is in the product manual I think as the
> > tool is useless without it.
> >
> >> >
> >> This is easily fixed with a good marketing presentation and some social
> >> proof. It depends on the exact genre of the invention, the kind of
> >> social proof that you will need. If this is the only thing holding you
> >> back from millions of dollars, then it is easily remedied.
> >
> > Okay Cliff, I will come clean about the genre of my product.
> > It is a measuring device based on math but you do not need to be
> > mathematically inclined at all to use it.
> > It is a template that accurately (usually within 0 -3 periods)
identifies
> > trigger points in any World financial market (Using a chart of the
> > instrument being tracked, stocks, commodities, bonds etc). The problem
is
> > that intelligent people know that the only way that such a device could
> > possibly work was if financial markets were not random and most people
> > believe that they are...........
> >
> > I will email you Cliff and maybe send you a book if you could give me a
> > mailing address.
>
> A fellow named Joe Granville came up with something like that about 30
years
> ago--his method worked remarkably well for a while, then everybody started
> using it and the rules ceased to be valid. Granville made a lot of money
> in the meantime.
>
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