I and many other inventors do study patents and learn from them. In fact, studying patents is a great way to expand one's technical knowledge. It is also a good way to learn about unsolved problems and can catalyze discovery of new inventions.
Everything in life which is worthwhile requires work. Learning to understand patents requires your investing some time to understand them. If you chose to not do so then it is your own self inflicted loss.
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See my post on this thread regarding the two major factions of big companies. One group does love their own patents but wants to exclude small business interests and the other pretty much hates all patents.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Betamax v. VHS - All Marketing
"Comprehension FAIL. Attitude FAIL. Life FAIL. Pure FAIL. FAIL."
You really need to stay away from mirrors.
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The reason other large business groups are pushing Patent Deform is that the patent system gives an individual who has a significant invention to take them on and win. Most of the time when you see media talking about a patent troll there is an inventors who achieved justice against overwhelming odds.
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"waiting for others to become efficient and then ready to get exploited?"
If "others" build their business on a rotten foundation then they deserve to be run out of business.
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"waiting for others to become efficient and then ready to get exploited?"
If "others" build their business on a rotten foundation then they deserve to be run out of business.
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Yep. There are far more aspiring copycats than inventors and those who want free reign scream bloody murder when their paddies are slapped. This is happening today and it is quite reasonable to think that it also happened in the past.
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cc, does this mean you are mad and that your are going to take your marbles and stomp off to a different sandbox?
You kind of remind me of an adolescent.
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"Others factors may have an impact but the only true thing that stop others from developing and studying is patents, thank God there are hackers out there studying anyways, with or without the law."
No one stops people from studying patents. In fact the purpose of patents is to make the knowledge available for others to study and build on.
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Many inventions from ancient times were completely lost when civilizations perished because they were kept secret. Without protection people have very good reason to carefully guard the secret of their inventions.
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"They should work at a university or at an R&D company and get paid to do their jobs like everybody else."
Now this is really outside the box thinking:) If everyone does this then no new companies are likely to be born.
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"Please explain why Asiatic countries are growing faster than the U.S. "
Dirt cheap labor and no R&D costs because they steal ours.
"Your type of inventor's are parasites of that system, that sterilize the environment negating further advancements needed for survival, you creeps are killing this country(the U.S.)."
In other words you want to use our inventions for nothing. The typical royalty for an important invention is 5% or less of factory wholesale. That means that it is 3% or less of retail. High volume products might see a royalty in the 0.1% range. I don't think that it is killing anything and if it is too high a burden all you have to do is not use it.
What is killing the country is transnational companies shipping our collective manufacturing know how out of America. And shipping massive numbers of jobs out of America.
And if that is not bad enough they are killing budding companies by stealing their inventions and shipping them and the new jobs they would have created out of the country.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Do You Want Inventions To See The Light Of Day?
"Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong but what is obvious is that you are unable to contribute something of value here."
I contributed something of value, namely a great deal of information about the realities of inventing as a business.
The problem is not that I did not contribute value but that you and other TechDIRT users are unable to see or extract value.
In my case I did produce products buy an invention is in its own rights a product and deserves the same respect.
"one risks being offended" I believe that TechDIRT is by its nature offensive and that is the reason why you get responses you do not like.
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I know that I was able to record most movies on TV and that means that the cartridge was capable of at least 1 1/2 hours.
Also, there is no reason that Beta could not have been scaled for longer recording times as was done with VHS.
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It has been my experience that you can find many historical theories but they are still just theories. vested interests always spin things and as time passes it becomes more difficult to sort out.
Edison was demonized by those who tried to cheat him. Watts was demonized. The same was true of Farnsworth, who was harassed his whole life by RCA. Bob Kearns suffered in the same way at the hands of big auto companies. Jerry Lemelson, who was the second most prolific inventor after Edison was systematically cheated and demonized. I knew both Kearns and Lemelson and they were both honorable people.
So why should I believe the drivel about Watts?
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As I recall, Betamax was three hours, long enough for most movies but it was also a much higher quality image.
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"Most real inventors despise the patent system and never get patents."
This is utter bunk. Lots of people want to think that they invent, especially programmers. This ranks right next to men's preoccupation with their anatomy, IQ, etc., but if they do not get a patent then they actually have no evidence that they invented.
While my primary expertise was in hardware design (analog and digital), I was an early adopter of microprocessor technology. At that time there were mostly Cobal and Fortan programmers and both turned their noses up at programming micros. So I had to write my own code. Throughout my career I used scores of languages and hundreds of dialects. As the industry matured programmers started to specialize in embedded system programming.
I hired quite a few engineers and programmers and it was rare to see a software engineer which had the same reasoning capabilities as those who designed hardware. The reality is that most software developers are drones who write endless amounts of code with slight variations. At least half of them are pretty mediocre. They have their uses but they are not the brightest bulbs in the pack.
This is the same group who rationalizes that their contribution to society ranks in the same class as that of their peers who do actually invent new things. I assure you that they do not come close.
As to open source, it is NO different than any other art area. They can use whatever is in public domain but have no right to use that which is covered by in force patents.
I would add that just because they offer free code as a loss leader, to generate profit in other ways does not give them the right to steal others intellectual property.
I do recognize that open source is the kind of thing Mike Masnick likes to rant about, the FREE business model. But a free business model has to be based on giving away your own property and not on the equivalent of of a chop shop operation selling stolen car parts.
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"some say he delayed the industrial revolution by decades."
Does it matter what some say? I don't think so.
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No, the patent system does not take anything because without it most people will not invest in producing or teaching the invention.
In order for inventors to have the freedom to invent they need income from their inventions. Otherwise they end up wage slaves. The beauty of our patent system is it allows inventors to become independent.
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No, the patent system does not take anything because without it most people will not invest in producing or teaching the invention.
In order for inventors to have the freedom to invent they need income from their inventions. Otherwise they end up wage slaves. The beauty of our patent system is it allows inventors to become independent.
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On the post: Why Imitation Gets A Bad Rap... And Why Companies Need To Be More Serious About Copying
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Leapfroging
Everything in life which is worthwhile requires work. Learning to understand patents requires your investing some time to understand them. If you chose to not do so then it is your own self inflicted loss.
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Re: Re: The System Works
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Betamax v. VHS - All Marketing
You really need to stay away from mirrors.
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Re: Re: The System Works
The reason other large business groups are pushing Patent Deform is that the patent system gives an individual who has a significant invention to take them on and win. Most of the time when you see media talking about a patent troll there is an inventors who achieved justice against overwhelming odds.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Leapfroging
If "others" build their business on a rotten foundation then they deserve to be run out of business.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Leapfroging
If "others" build their business on a rotten foundation then they deserve to be run out of business.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Leapfrogging
Yep. There are far more aspiring copycats than inventors and those who want free reign scream bloody murder when their paddies are slapped. This is happening today and it is quite reasonable to think that it also happened in the past.
Ronald J. Riley,
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Leapfroging
You kind of remind me of an adolescent.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Leapfroging
No one stops people from studying patents. In fact the purpose of patents is to make the knowledge available for others to study and build on.
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Re: exclude others
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Someone has to be original.
Now this is really outside the box thinking:) If everyone does this then no new companies are likely to be born.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Leapfrogging
Dirt cheap labor and no R&D costs because they steal ours.
"Your type of inventor's are parasites of that system, that sterilize the environment negating further advancements needed for survival, you creeps are killing this country(the U.S.)."
In other words you want to use our inventions for nothing. The typical royalty for an important invention is 5% or less of factory wholesale. That means that it is 3% or less of retail. High volume products might see a royalty in the 0.1% range. I don't think that it is killing anything and if it is too high a burden all you have to do is not use it.
What is killing the country is transnational companies shipping our collective manufacturing know how out of America. And shipping massive numbers of jobs out of America.
And if that is not bad enough they are killing budding companies by stealing their inventions and shipping them and the new jobs they would have created out of the country.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Do You Want Inventions To See The Light Of Day?
I contributed something of value, namely a great deal of information about the realities of inventing as a business.
The problem is not that I did not contribute value but that you and other TechDIRT users are unable to see or extract value.
In my case I did produce products buy an invention is in its own rights a product and deserves the same respect.
"one risks being offended" I believe that TechDIRT is by its nature offensive and that is the reason why you get responses you do not like.
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Re: Re: Re: Betamax v. VHS - All Marketing
Also, there is no reason that Beta could not have been scaled for longer recording times as was done with VHS.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Leapfrogging
Edison was demonized by those who tried to cheat him. Watts was demonized. The same was true of Farnsworth, who was harassed his whole life by RCA. Bob Kearns suffered in the same way at the hands of big auto companies. Jerry Lemelson, who was the second most prolific inventor after Edison was systematically cheated and demonized. I knew both Kearns and Lemelson and they were both honorable people.
So why should I believe the drivel about Watts?
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Re: Re: Betamax v. VHS - All Marketing
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Someone has to be original.
This is utter bunk. Lots of people want to think that they invent, especially programmers. This ranks right next to men's preoccupation with their anatomy, IQ, etc., but if they do not get a patent then they actually have no evidence that they invented.
While my primary expertise was in hardware design (analog and digital), I was an early adopter of microprocessor technology. At that time there were mostly Cobal and Fortan programmers and both turned their noses up at programming micros. So I had to write my own code. Throughout my career I used scores of languages and hundreds of dialects. As the industry matured programmers started to specialize in embedded system programming.
I hired quite a few engineers and programmers and it was rare to see a software engineer which had the same reasoning capabilities as those who designed hardware. The reality is that most software developers are drones who write endless amounts of code with slight variations. At least half of them are pretty mediocre. They have their uses but they are not the brightest bulbs in the pack.
This is the same group who rationalizes that their contribution to society ranks in the same class as that of their peers who do actually invent new things. I assure you that they do not come close.
As to open source, it is NO different than any other art area. They can use whatever is in public domain but have no right to use that which is covered by in force patents.
I would add that just because they offer free code as a loss leader, to generate profit in other ways does not give them the right to steal others intellectual property.
I do recognize that open source is the kind of thing Mike Masnick likes to rant about, the FREE business model. But a free business model has to be based on giving away your own property and not on the equivalent of of a chop shop operation selling stolen car parts.
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
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Re: Re: Leapfroging
Does it matter what some say? I don't think so.
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: Why Imitation Gets A Bad Rap... And Why Companies Need To Be More Serious About Copying
Re: Re: Re: Re: Someone has to be original.
In order for inventors to have the freedom to invent they need income from their inventions. Otherwise they end up wage slaves. The beauty of our patent system is it allows inventors to become independent.
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: Why Imitation Gets A Bad Rap... And Why Companies Need To Be More Serious About Copying
Re: Re: Re: Re: Leapfroging
In order for inventors to have the freedom to invent they need income from their inventions. Otherwise they end up wage slaves. The beauty of our patent system is it allows inventors to become independent.
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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