I have patents for a reason. I am only one man.

To shield yourself from competition and risk?

For one man to perform all of the same functions in sequential order means that delivery date could be many years away depending on the complexity of what is being made....from scratch.

Therefore you need people to initiate force on your behalf against others to shield you from the consequences of your own inefficiency?

For one man to perform all of the same functions in sequential order means that delivery date could be many years away depending on the complexity of what is being made....from scratch. Pushing the technological envelope is not like pushing a shopping cart. Many people do R&D, few do it well, even fewer are exceptional. Which group do I fit in?

I don't know.. If you do it so well, why do you need to have people initiate force on your behalf in order for your work to be profitable?

Go look up my patents. There was 6 years of work in the basic design before we filled out the patent application. That work has a monetary value invested in it.

There's a difference between sunk costs and value. Value isn't determined by the producer of a product; it's determined by the consumer. Nothing is worth more than someone is willing to pay.

Hence, the "information" that communicates the idea also has a monetary value regardless if it is the form of 1's and 0's, blueprints or text written by quill and ink. That value belongs to me.

Value only exists as an expression of subjective preference that originates in the mind of a consumer in culminates in that individual's purposeful action. By what method did you come to own people such that you have the right to make value judgments on their behalf?

I've earned it through the time spent in school, honing the skills necessary to design and then, go make the machine all by myself, without the other 99 people mentioned above. The catch is time. One man can only do so much in a day.

You invested time and labor in a skill therefore you own other people such that you can make value judgments on their behalf? How does that value?

A patent keeps others with greater resources from seeing what I have done, and cloning it, (in effect stealing my investment) and getting to market before I can due to lack of resources.

Like I said, it shields you from competition by getting people to initiate force against your competitors. Same thing lobbyists bank on when they lobby for regulations that keep small businesses out of the market.

In your posting you demonstrate that you are both unhappy with

I actually never appealed to my own emotions.

..., and that you are in need of greater understanding of the differences between patents (machines & devices), copyrights (music, books and media) and trademarks (logos, artwork etc.)

I never asked for clarification, either.

Please, before you make me list the logical issues with your arguments...

Oh, so you do have a logical argument rather than appeals to emotion? You should have said so. Why didn't you lead off with those?

...do look up my patents. The actual title is ridiculously long. What it covers in essentially the first economically viable, scalable "biomass engine". Solving the algae-for-fuels problem in 2008, and willfully ignored by the federal government ever since.

How would looking up your patent demonstrate that you aren't competition averse or that you aren't just seeking a government protected monopoly?

Ask yourself how motivated to make such investments in bettering technology would you be if anybody who decided for themselves...

If people who are so inefficient that they can't innovate without being shielded from competition go out of business, good. It's a market signal that they're not making the best use of resources and that someone else can do it better. I'm fine with not stagnating progress just because people want to be protected from the consequences of their own inefficiency.

I assume not very.

Argument from skepticism is a logical fallacy. Ironic.

Making things is hard. Making things that are true innovations is almost impossible, and I've been lucky enough to create three.

And that's an argument for government protected monopolies and the initiation of force against people because...?

Did you have to make your car?

Non-sequitur.

I understand that you are emotionally and financially invested, but that doesn't entitle you to steal the capital of other people or use force against them to prevent them from using their ACTUAL property how they see fit.

Your entire response was ironically non-responsive to my article.