America is not without its flaws.
If you’ve read any of my previous posts about fraud and corruption, then you’ll understand that the Department of Defense goes to war against the very citizens that it was instituted to protect.
Why?
Envy and greed.
Department of Defense researchers have been looking for a better zipper since the 1960s. Half a century later, they haven’t found an adequate solution…
Well, they hadn’t found a solution until they saw mine.
They feel upstaged and rightly so. But, they get grant money from taxpayers in order to fund people who will upstage or HELP them to solve problems and save the lives of war-fighters.
I responded to their solicitation. They asked for my help. They knew they couldn’t figure it out. My intention was to help them.
That’s the jealousy- how could I have created this when they had all the talent and resources on the job?
They’ve funded numerous attempts at creating a novel closure.
Not mine. They didn’t want to pay me to develop it.
That’s how I know they know I have what they’ve been looking for.
That’s the greed- why should they pay me when they can just take it from me?
I anticipated this. I anticipated the Department of Defense’s actions. (Whoo! Maybe I should join.)
After I applied for SBIR A16-062 in early February 2016, I kept working on the closure.
I wasn’t sure that this was going to happen. However, sometimes things just feel too good to be true and I planned for the worst.
By the time the Army was doling out grants to NanoGriptech (the frauds) and others in July 2016…
- I already had a sophisticated prototype
- I’d filed a great PCT application
- I had already publicly disclosed my product during soft launch on July 1st
Yeah, they take forever to make grant funding decisions.
And, the best part is that likely only a handful of people actually read my proposal- a few on the grant review panel and the ones I’d communicated with from FedBizOpps.
So, by the time I actually realized my initial feelings of unease were reality, I had already pretty adequately protected myself.
Now, I’m just further developing the technology, fortifying my IP, and publicly disclosing everything as soon as I can.
I’m reading all of DoD’s past research like this crap from 2004: https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=453185.
(It’s crap because if the closure detailed in this report was going to work then a regular zip track baggie closure would’ve worked.)
And, they paid for that research. It failed.
Anyway, I’m making moves and making friends that’ll help me once I have to play defense against the Dept. of Defense.
It’s just not the organization you want to only play defense against- they lie, cheat, and steal to defeat you. I’m learning from my fellow comrades who’ve been down this road before me.
I’ll be one the first of the inventors I’ve met that gets a shot on offense before the Dept. of Defense attacks them (stealing their technology.)
I’m also the only female so far. Maybe female intuition actually exists…
Anticipation is everything.
It might’ve already saved my business.
But, that all depends on how corrupt this government is willing to be.
I remember learning about Galileo in grade school. He was absolutely right but he was still thrown in prison.
That was science back then. That was government back then.
Maybe that’s how it’ll be now.
Stay tuned.
I’m excited! 🙂
