"Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the creator sign an employment agreement that prohibited or restricted him from creating a competitive product while employed by Mattel?"
Those kinds of agreements are quite difficult to enforce, rightfully so.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Mike Masnick does not often end up on the right side of intellectual property (IP) issues but he has in this case.
Mattel has a long history of taking liberties with others IP. While the toy industry has in the past had a pretty good reputation for dealing fairly with inventors, Mattel has not. In recent years consolidation in the industry has led to less competition and less reputable conduct.
In any event, from what I know of Mattel I cannot help but think that they deserve to be handed their heads in the MGA Bratz case.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
While I was a hardware engineer first I started programming over forty years ago. At that time IBM was riding high. I was a teenager and worshiped IBM. As I became older I came to appreciate that IBM and for that matter most large companies had lots of warts. By the time I got out of high school I did not want anything to do with working for big companies.
Look at IBM today, they are a ghost of their former self. IBM still makes a great deal of money but the seeds of their destruction have been growing for a long time.
Today we see IBM following behind Microsoft like a puppy. For example, five years ago Microcrap demanded Patent Deform and a month later IBM was the second to make the demand. While IBM started as a real inventor and evolved to become a parasite over time Microsoft started as a parasite from the beginning. Today they both remind me of the ending of Animal Farm.
Our patent system serves small and large entities alike, but they use the system in very different ways. Small companies build their fortunes on a small number of significant patented inventions while big companies file large quantities of marginal incremental patents.
IBM is the king of massive patent filings, most of which a small entity would never consider.
Microsoft, IBM and other members of the Piracy Cross Coalition want to cement their stagnate market positions by disenfranchising small entity inventors. That is the essence of Patent Deform.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
TechDIRT Drones Mad Because Patent System Is Effective
"We've already gone over this, Riley. It's just disappointing that you continue to push an agenda that seems to support nothing more than pushing for more patents without consideration into how they are ineffective."
Patents are meant to teach and you admit that they do so. In exchange for inventing and teaching the inventor gets the right to recover their investment of time and money by excluding those who do not pay for the right to use it.
Patents are effective in that inventors are successfully adjusting attitudes of those who do not play by the rules. The only reason that TechDIRT drones do not like patents is that they are effective.
I have no doubt that Mike Masnick is profiting handsomely from the services he is delivering to big patent pirating companies, in large part from getting a bunch of drones to promote his and their agenda for nothing.
Jay, tell me are you one of the fools who works for nothing or are you on their payroll?
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
A patent troll is simply an inventor or someone who invests in an inventor who has produced an invention of significant value which is being infringed and who has the gall to defend their legal property rights.
"I guess all of those tinkerers in Japan, China, Brazil, etc. are just evil people"
If they are good enough to produce something original and they have the sense to teach via patents then they drive job creation and prosperity. Otherwise they are not ever likely to do themselves and society at large much good.
It is unfortunate that the world has far more parasites than than it has real inventors. It is also unfortunate that parasites never care about the damage they do to the host.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
"However, in the end, Interval did little of anything"
More Mike Masnick BS. Paul Allen and Interval produced inventions. Mike always likes to talk about innovators whose innovation is build on misappropriating others inventions and Mike Masnick constantly minimize the value of those who actually invent while hyping those who do not.
Marketing hucksters are dime a dozen. They do not walk on water and their ability to con everyone is not something any ethical person should admire.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Mike is really digging at the bottom of the barrel on this one.
Carab, you say "IP law and economics are huge parts of what gets covered here". The problem is that bI have not seen anything about IP law here which has any merit. Talking about something is not the same as actually knowing something about it.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Has anyone considered that large companies may be eager participants in censoring Wikileaks because they have as much or more dirty linen they are trying to hide? Considering Bank of America's history of questionable conduct, they could be lobbying the government to do their dirty work. It would not be the first time (Data Treasury).
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Everyone should shun the large banks in favor of either small regional banks or credit unions.
In my opinion Bank of America is one of the worst in the industry.
The banking industry pushes credit and hooks people much like drug dealers.
Everyone should get out of debt and shun credit for everything except major things like buying a house.
I was completely debt free by age 35 and have kept it that way.
Regarding BoA:
I did use a number of BoA credit cards (over 15 years) simply to consolidate transactions for each of my companies but switched to debit cards after BoA fleeced me. We pay invoices on the 1st and 15th in full each month. It was amazing how statements from numerous accounts were arriving 8-10 days after the supposed closing date out of a 20 day grace period.
It appears that BoA's return to profitability was based totally on unusual mail delays.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Israel and the Jewish people collectively are a huge asset to humanity. I am constantly amazed by how the Jewish people produce so many high performers. The same cannot be said for the rest of the Middle East.
There is in my mind o question that overall Congress has become pretty much unaccountable and that transnational corporate money is incredibly corrosive for the political process.
But bashing Israel and the Jewish people over Lieberman's actions is flat out wrong.
By the way, I am not Jewish and I am not related to anyone who is. My opinion is based on observation.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.patentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Re: Is Senator Joe Lieberman McCarthy Reincarniated?
My first reaction to the release was to be pissed off. But upon further consideration, especially in light of all the dirty tricks our government is pulling, I changed my mind.
I have come to the conclusion that our government is responsible for the leak through gross incompetence. Unfortunately, organizations always do their best to place blame for their deficiencies outside the organization.
I have been fighting corporations' agenda for the patent system for over a decade. I have spent over a year in DC in that time in one to two week stints in and it is clear that the culture of Washington is corrosive to the character of politicians.
Not every member of Congress is a corporate puppet, there are many good people who due their best to deliver good government. But it seems that the worst players do rise to the top.
There is no shortage of people willing to whore for corporate interests. Corporations have been running for Congress by proxy for a long time and the Supreme Court has now made it much easier for them to do so.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.patentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Pick an art area which you are most familiar with and read half a dozen patents in that art area. If you cannot figure out any of those patents then you need to accept that you are not especially skilled.
The most rapid anti-patent people seem to be in the software arena. The bulk of people in the profession are uncreative drones who write an endless stream of largely repetitive code with slight variations. Is anyone surprised that so many suffer from the "Little Person Syndrome"?
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
Every time someone gets Mike Masnick's goat he start throwing around accusations of them lying.
This is really ironic since virtually everything Mike Masnick writes about patents and inventors is based on minute bits of truth buried in either overt lies or lies by omission.
There is not question about what Mike has to say, all that is unknown at this point is if Mike is just another PR huckster or if he actually believes the crap he writes. That is the question, shill or ideology driven tunnel vision?
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
TechDIRT is a bastion of of ignorance & shills for those who steal others intellectual property. If you want to interact with with people who actually know something about these issues feel free to contact me and I will send you information on accessing a more enlightened forum.
Your experience in this forum demonstrates why I and other inventors who have tried to reason with these knuckleheads have all come to the conclusion that the only useful purpose TechDIRT serves is to help people like us to come together.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
Toyota was caught red handed with their sticky fingers on American inventors property. This is something Japanese companies have been doing since WW II. Look at how they destroyed whole American industries by selling products below cost in order to take over industries.
Toyota's carefully polished image has taken a beating. It appears that Toyota knowingly put their customers at risk of maiming and death in a vain attempt to cover their problems.
I hope that I am not alone in disapproving of companies who are willing to maim and kill customers.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
If someone were going to do this they should use Name-SUCKS.com because search engines treat the hyphen as a space and parse on it.
Incidentally, there is no way to suppress this form of criticism because other forms such as Name-1-Sucks or any other of endless possibilities will yield the same results.
While I think that TechDIRT is an incredibly biased forum I do not think they deserve their own SUCKS site. Such should be saved for the dredges of our society.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
I wonder if Nominet had any sort of deal in place to profit from this?
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
At last, a point of agreement. People produce intellectual property in large part for the "incentives". Government offers us a property right to produce. Big companies and mobs of rift raft try to defraud us of those incentives and then whine when we slap their paddies.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
On the post: Judge Now Says That Mattel Doesn't Get To Own All Of Bratz
Employment Agreements
Those kinds of agreements are quite difficult to enforce, rightfully so.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Judge Now Says That Mattel Doesn't Get To Own All Of Bratz
One of the few times Mike Masnick gets it.
Mattel has a long history of taking liberties with others IP. While the toy industry has in the past had a pretty good reputation for dealing fairly with inventors, Mattel has not. In recent years consolidation in the industry has led to less competition and less reputable conduct.
In any event, from what I know of Mattel I cannot help but think that they deserve to be handed their heads in the MGA Bratz case.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: IBM Files For Patent On Patent Trolling, But It May Be Too Late
Re: LOL
What you see with IBM is the fate of most large companies. They file minor patents because they are no longer able to produce significant inventions.
Small business uses the patent system very differently.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: IBM Files For Patent On Patent Trolling, But It May Be Too Late
Re: "Trolling for Dummies"
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: IBM Files For Patent On Patent Trolling, But It May Be Too Late
IBM Dieing A Slow Death - In Decline For Decades
Look at IBM today, they are a ghost of their former self. IBM still makes a great deal of money but the seeds of their destruction have been growing for a long time.
Today we see IBM following behind Microsoft like a puppy. For example, five years ago Microcrap demanded Patent Deform and a month later IBM was the second to make the demand. While IBM started as a real inventor and evolved to become a parasite over time Microsoft started as a parasite from the beginning. Today they both remind me of the ending of Animal Farm.
Our patent system serves small and large entities alike, but they use the system in very different ways. Small companies build their fortunes on a small number of significant patented inventions while big companies file large quantities of marginal incremental patents.
IBM is the king of massive patent filings, most of which a small entity would never consider.
Microsoft, IBM and other members of the Piracy Cross Coalition want to cement their stagnate market positions by disenfranchising small entity inventors. That is the essence of Patent Deform.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Paul Allen Files Amended Patent Lawsuit; Shows It's Even More Ridiculous Than We Originally Thought
TechDIRT Drones Mad Because Patent System Is Effective
Patents are meant to teach and you admit that they do so. In exchange for inventing and teaching the inventor gets the right to recover their investment of time and money by excluding those who do not pay for the right to use it.
Patents are effective in that inventors are successfully adjusting attitudes of those who do not play by the rules. The only reason that TechDIRT drones do not like patents is that they are effective.
I have no doubt that Mike Masnick is profiting handsomely from the services he is delivering to big patent pirating companies, in large part from getting a bunch of drones to promote his and their agenda for nothing.
Jay, tell me are you one of the fools who works for nothing or are you on their payroll?
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Paul Allen Files Amended Patent Lawsuit; Shows It's Even More Ridiculous Than We Originally Thought
Inventors v. Parasites
A patent troll is simply an inventor or someone who invests in an inventor who has produced an invention of significant value which is being infringed and who has the gall to defend their legal property rights.
"I guess all of those tinkerers in Japan, China, Brazil, etc. are just evil people"
If they are good enough to produce something original and they have the sense to teach via patents then they drive job creation and prosperity. Otherwise they are not ever likely to do themselves and society at large much good.
It is unfortunate that the world has far more parasites than than it has real inventors. It is also unfortunate that parasites never care about the damage they do to the host.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Paul Allen Files Amended Patent Lawsuit; Shows It's Even More Ridiculous Than We Originally Thought
More Mike Masnick BS.
More Mike Masnick BS. Paul Allen and Interval produced inventions. Mike always likes to talk about innovators whose innovation is build on misappropriating others inventions and Mike Masnick constantly minimize the value of those who actually invent while hyping those who do not.
Marketing hucksters are dime a dozen. They do not walk on water and their ability to con everyone is not something any ethical person should admire.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Algerian Gets Patent On Building Pyramids?
More TechDIRT Drivel About Patents
Carab, you say "IP law and economics are huge parts of what gets covered here". The problem is that bI have not seen anything about IP law here which has any merit. Talking about something is not the same as actually knowing something about it.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: JFK On Secrecy And Censorship
Are Big Corps Driving Wikileaks Censorship?
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Bank Of America -- Thought To Be Wikileaks Next Target -- Suddenly Tries To Block Payments To Wikileaks
Shunning large banks.
In my opinion Bank of America is one of the worst in the industry.
The banking industry pushes credit and hooks people much like drug dealers.
Everyone should get out of debt and shun credit for everything except major things like buying a house.
I was completely debt free by age 35 and have kept it that way.
Regarding BoA:
I did use a number of BoA credit cards (over 15 years) simply to consolidate transactions for each of my companies but switched to debit cards after BoA fleeced me. We pay invoices on the 1st and 15th in full each month. It was amazing how statements from numerous accounts were arriving 8-10 days after the supposed closing date out of a 20 day grace period.
It appears that BoA's return to profitability was based totally on unusual mail delays.
I stopped using BoA cards (formerly MBNA).
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Lieberman Praises Companies Helping Him Try To Censor Wikileaks
Israel
There is in my mind o question that overall Congress has become pretty much unaccountable and that transnational corporate money is incredibly corrosive for the political process.
But bashing Israel and the Jewish people over Lieberman's actions is flat out wrong.
By the way, I am not Jewish and I am not related to anyone who is. My opinion is based on observation.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.patentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Lieberman Praises Companies Helping Him Try To Censor Wikileaks
Re: Is Senator Joe Lieberman McCarthy Reincarniated?
I have come to the conclusion that our government is responsible for the leak through gross incompetence. Unfortunately, organizations always do their best to place blame for their deficiencies outside the organization.
I have been fighting corporations' agenda for the patent system for over a decade. I have spent over a year in DC in that time in one to two week stints in and it is clear that the culture of Washington is corrosive to the character of politicians.
Not every member of Congress is a corporate puppet, there are many good people who due their best to deliver good government. But it seems that the worst players do rise to the top.
There is no shortage of people willing to whore for corporate interests. Corporations have been running for Congress by proxy for a long time and the Supreme Court has now made it much easier for them to do so.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.patentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: MIT's Tech Review Comes Out In Favor Of Patent Trolls
Skilled In The Art / AFAIR Jukispot was the first
The most rapid anti-patent people seem to be in the software arena. The bulk of people in the profession are uncreative drones who write an endless stream of largely repetitive code with slight variations. Is anyone surprised that so many suffer from the "Little Person Syndrome"?
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
On the post: MIT's Tech Review Comes Out In Favor Of Patent Trolls
Shill or ideology driven tunnel vision?
Every time someone gets Mike Masnick's goat he start throwing around accusations of them lying.
This is really ironic since virtually everything Mike Masnick writes about patents and inventors is based on minute bits of truth buried in either overt lies or lies by omission.
There is not question about what Mike has to say, all that is unknown at this point is if Mike is just another PR huckster or if he actually believes the crap he writes. That is the question, shill or ideology driven tunnel vision?
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
On the post: MIT's Tech Review Comes Out In Favor Of Patent Trolls
Re: Re: Re:
TechDIRT is a bastion of of ignorance & shills for those who steal others intellectual property. If you want to interact with with people who actually know something about these issues feel free to contact me and I will send you information on accessing a more enlightened forum.
Your experience in this forum demonstrates why I and other inventors who have tried to reason with these knuckleheads have all come to the conclusion that the only useful purpose TechDIRT serves is to help people like us to come together.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
On the post: Patents Create Incentives For More Patents, Not Innovation
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Toyota's carefully polished image has taken a beating. It appears that Toyota knowingly put their customers at risk of maiming and death in a vain attempt to cover their problems.
I hope that I am not alone in disapproving of companies who are willing to maim and kill customers.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
On the post: Guy Who Runs Anti-Ryanair Website Forced To Hand Over The Domain Because He Made A Little Money
Re: TechDirt sucks?
Incidentally, there is no way to suppress this form of criticism because other forms such as Name-1-Sucks or any other of endless possibilities will yield the same results.
While I think that TechDIRT is an incredibly biased forum I do not think they deserve their own SUCKS site. Such should be saved for the dredges of our society.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
On the post: Guy Who Runs Anti-Ryanair Website Forced To Hand Over The Domain Because He Made A Little Money
Nominet Deal??
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
On the post: Would Copyright Work Better If It Was Treated More Like Property?
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At last, a point of agreement. People produce intellectual property in large part for the "incentives". Government offers us a property right to produce. Big companies and mobs of rift raft try to defraud us of those incentives and then whine when we slap their paddies.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
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