The Seasteading Institute

Reply To: Patents

I am the person who is being a stick in the mud about patents. I was in a patent fight when I was at Sun Microsystems and it was pretty unpleasant. The whole fight would have been avoided if we had simply sat down and applied for the patent when I told management that we should.Given how long many of us have dreamed of real viable seasteads, the additional delay of waiting for the provisional patent application to be filed does not seem that extreme to me. It will add a one or two month delay before we can start showing some pictures of what our Marine folks have come up with.Anyhow, don't beat up Patri on this issue. I'm the one to beat up!