I don't get the vibe she's hungry for profit. She's old school academic, wanting to do it by the book.
I wouldn't mind if she became rich from her work.
I do. On principle. I don't think anyone in the medical field should profit off of discovery.
That is my personal opinion.
So since I have a device which functions similarly, I should patent and then sell each one for thousands of dollars.
My feeling is that UoM has the rough equivalent of the cure for cancer. However, unlike cancer, the principles that seem to make this work as UoM has documented on their website, have been long established. I'm not sure what the problem and hold up is with the FDA... I do see that the FDA hasn't approved their device... but it is somewhere working its way through the approval process.
It is great work, but I think it is being delayed out of this hope that patent protection in key countries will prevent it from getting cloned. However, it is going to be difficult to prevent this from being cloned by the Chinese because all we are talking about is an embedded chip, with some circuitry that times a biphasic shock wave with a sine wave. There are different timings that seem to work, so it would be literally impossible to patent everything. I would opine that the longer the delays, the greater the risk of someone coming out with a homeopathic product that achieves the same results, using different methods. Homeopathic products do not require FDA approval. TENS units are already being sold. As it stands right now (and I'm not selling, advertising, etc... so please don't hate on me), you can build a "wave generator" and pair it with a TENS device, and produce the same effect.
I do give kudos to Prof. Shore for answering email... it is possible she is frustrated because she has had the solution in her hands for a long time:
My hope, and prayer, is that Prof. Shore gets her device out there before homeopathic devices flood the market. My line of business is web development and listing services... so this is out of my core focus. I built one because I'm damn tired of dealing with this, and based on how suicidal people can be (I once told my wife I was going to end my life), I don't think this should be delayed further.
And after all the concern about saving lives from COVID-19... well, what about ours. Prof. Shore needs to get the device out, take full credit for curing the world of tinnitus, before other competing homeopathic products enter the market. The component cost is around $25, and PCB costs around $45 made out of China. Programming and firmware development are pretty straightforward, and because I'm retired, have chosen to use some of my money on this, I know the ins and outs of how to produce a device - and without seeing the UoM device, component cost, and complexity is not that great. So let's hurry up, and get this thing out so that it can be professionally done. I've been working on mine for 18 months with an embedded engineering company, and once you know which components to use, it's not that hard. Figuring out the ins and outs IS hard, expensive, and long work.
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