Re: Anthropic's Mythos and Project Glasswing

I totally support the absolute necessity of claiming a patent or copyright under the current regime as it is, because if you don't somebody else puts the claim.

Jim, I believe "Tollhouse Cookies" is a trademark, the third category of "intellectual property" as opposed to patents and copyrights. Both of these latter two involve intellectual invention, ideas. I do believe in credit where credit is due. But when any government gets involved, you get corruption, like the Tesla patent on radio, robbed by the government on behalf of industry. Another example is my friend at the copier maker in Phoenix who mentioned the patent issue. That shows the flaw too, a completely arbitrary line of X percent difference to award a new patent.
The first guy with the idea has the first-use advantage.
I watched a video some months back where the presenter featured a dozen people who had invented a method to coax a monumental energy output for very little input, comparable to the Fleischman & Pons apparatus demonstrated in Utah in 1989 about which wrote Eugene Mallove, who quit his job as editor of the MIT magazine to create the Infinite Energy Foundation.
There are over 100 different Bible translations in English, almost all with copyrights. BUT each one must be at least x percent different from every other translation, (10 I think). Forget accuracy. New "versions" every so-many years, for the money. That's one reason I stick to the King James Bible, that's an early version of modern English and NOT obsolete and still the most accurate.
-Nuff said

On 04/09/2026 10:25 AM EDT Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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"legal whirlwind if you apply the patent regime to food recipes."
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Already happens, and continues to happen. You can’t say “tollhouse cookies” since it is registered along with the recipe. You can say “chocolate Chip” since that is public domain.

I want my intellectual property protected, therefore I copy-write everything, and if/when I come up with something patentable, I will apply for it. Your wish for a cost free world is not sustainable nor practical. I can choose to put my code is open source, but I’ll put a license on it that protects it. Still it’s my choice.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects