Stan Meyer filed his work with the government 44 times
They say the government buried Stan Meyer's work. Stan filed it with the government himself: 35 copyrights from 1977 to 1997, starting with his Solar-Pak flow charts, and 9 trademark applications, from Solar Silo in 1980 to Water Fuel Cell and his Job 38 logo in 1997. All nine trademarks were abando
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They say the government buried Stan Meyer's work. Stan filed it with the government himself: 35 copyrights from 1977 to 1997, starting with his Solar-Pak flow charts, and 9 trademark applications, from Solar Silo in 1980 to Water Fuel Cell and his Job 38 logo in 1997. All nine trademarks were abandoned, so none was ever registered. A patent protects the machine, a copyright protects the pages, and a trademark protects the name. His patents have all expired, so the how-to is free to read. Every record is listed on stanslegacy.com.
About the voices. The narrator is NeuralStan, an AI voice the archive uses for its made films. Where you hear Stan Meyer, it is Stan: every word of his is cut from an original recording, and nothing he says was synthesised.
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- Stan Meyer at his garage · 1990 interview
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1977 · public record
- Water Fuel Cell letterhead, March 1994
- Every copyright and trademark, with registry links: stanslegacy.com/library/copyrights and stanslegacy.com/library/trademarks
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Works of Art, Jan-Jun 1977, p. 458 (Iu 18136, Iu 18137): https://archive.org/details/1977worksofartja331711libr/page/n475/mode/1up
- US Copyright Office public records: VAu 47-120 (Water fuel cell, p. 1-65, 1982), TX 4-166-618 (The birth of new technology, 1995)
- USPTO trademark serials 73423278-80 (1983) and 75263714-24 (1997): all abandoned
- Water Fuel Cell letterhead, 19 March 1994 — stanslegacy.com
- Stan Meyer, the 1990 interview, 21:03 — stanslegacy.com
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