[Blake#1]

You state that an international patent committee would be less trust worthy than a national patent committee. In my situation, neither one of these committees would be solely working on my behalf. I accept the fact that competition will try to usurp my royalties. My only recourse is to hope for the dominance of Christian values. I pray alot!

[Hail Spode]

It sounds like you are very level headed. I agree with you that in the end, we must hope that governments have at least some remaining imprint of Christian values if we are not to be the playthings of the mighty. That might be one reason why we are better off with a strong national patent committee from our Christian-tradition nation with reciprocal agreements with others than an international patent board from cultures where the Gospel has never taken root.

At any case, if it is done on the national level first then your ideas are at least protected in that nation even if on the global level the system becomes corrupt.