Why Inventors stop Inventing

Yyyyeeaahhhh.... its always nice to see a mediocre version of your invention on the shelves a mile from your house. ....and your weren't responsible for it being there.

It can be difficult to keep a positive attitude about inventing things.

Why aren't patents like copyrights. Copyrights work sooooooo much better. Patents seem to have one purpose. ....to make the government money, and to allow companies to monopolize intellectual property. ....either to use it themselves, or simply to prevent anyone else from using it. Thats the worst.

It would be nice if there was more cooperation.

So, ya. I appologize to all the kids growing up in the world right now. There are those of us doing our best to make it better, though!

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[louisiukas]

Sad story! Please help me edit the crap out of the "Hexbug" wikipedia page. Let the truth come out about who was the real inventor of Spider Tank! Go Jamie!!

[JMEMantzel]

@louisiukas I'm not one to start fights, but... I'm all for making the truth about things known. ...and i can prove I invented it way before they even claim to have.

Its total crap, and the fact that big businesses go around pulling crap like this all the time makes me vomit a little.

I'm just waiting for them to sue me for making them. That would be the icing on the cake.

[JMEMantzel]

Hmmm... I might mention that about half an hour ago I designed..... the SPIDER TANK, MARK 6!!!! :-) Tee hee. I got an idea that changes the entire mechanism into something even better.

The one is this video was only the 4th...... and its still way better than anything I've seen out there.

Hmmm.... now I've just got about 5 days to build it... err... early night tonight. :-)

[penyaface]

Really sorry to hear about your troubles. I experience a similar conundrum in music. A friend once told me about his system of dealing with it, he said, "listen, people will constantly rip off you, constantly, the better you get the more you have to expect that, but that doesn't mean you stop. it should force you to keep producing at a prolific rate, because aside from the dishonorables there's a cast of people paying attention and considering a future with you." not creating vs sharing. do both

[JMEMantzel]

@penyaface Don't worry. I'll never stop doing my thing, and I'll never stop sharing it either. 'tis a bit annoying, when someone else swipes years of your work, and makes it into crap so they can make money off it but selling kids another piece of junk.

Its kinda like how physicists figured out how to build an Atomic bomb. I bet there was at least one with a tear in his eye when he heard about Hiroshima, or Nagasaki.

Who wants to fuel greed....

[riahmatic]

You're like the anti Steve Jobs.

[jarridk1]

By the way, the story i told....its a true story, happened to a family member. They sued, and won, but it took 5 years in court. I personally was ripped off, but i was never able to prove it. Patents dont protect you from Billion dollar companies, u have to be able to defend the patent which takes huge resources. I can see why people dont want to invent anymore.

[jarridk1]

He's right, it happens all the time, but sometimes for reasons you wouldnt think. Eg; Your a buyer for a big retailer(say 10yrs) your fired if you cant bring in the "next big thing" and increase profit margins. Inventor has a meeting with said individual, shows idea, gets ripped off. Ripped off for several different reasons, buyer needs your product, but your price is too high. Buyers response, ripp off, send to China, BANG! instantly doubles margins. Buyer is a hero, keeps his job.

[JammenRocks]

In my opinion is that patents cost too much also. Someone spends a lot of time and money on something they make only have to spend several grands on a patent.

[aceone1988]

engineer and inventers should band together and make there own Inventions with having to go any to company to distributed. 

[UrSoMeanBoss]

i LAUGHED soooo hard when you said "oh but im canadian!" because i am canadian xD

[Rapidparts]

i hope people share the inventing ideas on my website someday as i have !!! thats what my next year focus will be, i want a store that filters out all the crap out there. a store were its just metal and plastic products machine made !!!

[Rapidparts]

HEyy Man I use to think like this but now im ready to start sharing with the world !!! i figure if you keep it a secret it wont grow at the end you need peoples help to push product.

I made a Cool LED WORLD MAP MACHINED OUT OF METAL. and a canadian flag version too. I made it to hang it on my wall to inspire me to create art and to show people how its done. When i make something, i get bored of it and move on to the next idea

hope you like it.

[jscotthales]

Google Boston Dynamics BigDog , it's a pretty funny looking robot that walks really well.. also check out, "Robotic spider developed to explore dangerous areas "

[jscotthales]

Google Boston Dynamics BigDog , it's a pretty funny looking robot that walks really well..