"They force inventors to invent multiple solutions to the same problem, IF they exist."
Often better solutions come from efforts to invent around another invention. It is this process which rapidly advances technology.
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I have always been fascinated by differences in the way peoples thought processes work. Some copy, usually without giving attribution and that is all they can do. Not one original thought in their tiny brains.
Others are creative. They invent new things, products, business methods, etc. Then the copy cat hucksters come out in droves.
When they get caught copying they rationalize that they are just as creative as the person who produced the original ideas.
Well, they are not.
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It is common for Mike to make comments like this when someone gets his goat. He does not like it when people give him a taste of his own medicine.
That said, he deserves credit for for respecting free speech.
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"On nearly every other post on this site, I'm accused of hating big companies and wanting to destroy them. "
Maybe this is cover to throw people off?
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"That said, a billion dollar fine is a ridiculous amount for spam, no matter how annoying you believe spam might be."
What is the cost in terms of man hours of spam. I am willing to bet that lost productivity is far more than a billion dollars. The fine is reasonable.
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"Of course, the evidence suggests Simmons is totally wrong" should have read "Of course, the evidence suggests Masnick is totally wrong" at least about patents:)
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Re: Re: Re: Let's remember - Gluld was the real inventor!!
You are wrong. Townes most certainly made those claims but he had signed Gordon Gould's invention notebook and ultimately lost the case. It was proven that Gould produced the invention, Gould was inducted to the Inventors Hall of Fame and became a Nobel laureate for being the inventor of the Laser. See:
There has been a problem for some time with professors and others trying to claim student's inventions as their own. It is a shame that Townes did this, because he already had his place in history for the invention of the Maser. As it is, he sullied his reputation.
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Re: A good argument for old notion of "unearned" income.
"Patents and copyrights are essentially *unearned* because don't produce any net gains to humanity such as physical goods do."
Big transnational companies float the same red herring arguments all the time. An invention is a product just like when someone buys engineering. No one can produce a product without both the inventions which define the product and the engineering which allows the product to be produced.
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You are wrong. Townes most certainly made those claims but he had signed Gordon Gould's invention notebook and ultimately lost the case. It was proven that Gould produced the invention, Gould was inducted to the Inventors Hall of Fame and became a Nobel laureate for being the inventor of the Laser. See:
There has been a problem for some time with professors and others trying to claim student's inventions as their own. It is a shame that Townes did this, because he already had his place in history for the invention of the Maser. As it is, he sullied his reputation.
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"It should be noted that once a patent is issued it enjoys by law a presumption that it is valid. Thus, in litigation it is never the burden of the patentee to prove validity, but on the alleged infringer to prove invalidity."
Not so. Companies who are defendants virtually always challenge patent validity through reexamination.
"A patent is approved after just a few hours of review by a patent examiner who is unlikely to be aware of the state of the art."
Again, not true. Hundreds of hours, sometimes many thousands of hours go into presenting a patent application. Then the examiner gets an average of twenty hours to weigh the merits of the submission. They are experts in the art of the submitted application. If they don't have enough time they reject the application, forcing the applicant to pay again and they have another twenty+ hours.
"This is why the presumption of validity makes no sense"
What doesn't make sense is Mike Masnick's constant misrepresentation of facts.
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Gordon Gould invented the laser. I used an early ruby laser in the sixties and many years later became friends with Gordon Gould.
Gould was a quiet man which at least initially hid a very sharp intellect.
It took Gould thirty years of litigation to get his due. Just like today, big business was able to harass Gould by influencing the patent office.
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"Last, an observation. Corporate America arguably has the most powerful tool for influencing legislation: Money. So given this obvious advantage, why don't they pressure congress to change the law if patent lawsuits are bad for big business? "
They do pressure, but inventors have put together a coalition which keeps coming up with creative ways to torpedo their efforts.
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"wouldn't the best approach for a big company be to fight any and all bogus patents to the last breath?"
All the long term planners were either tossed out or left over short term management. Those are often the people who are inventing and suing the crap out of big companies when they misappropriate inventions.
Microsoft, RIM, Apple, Google have all tried scorched earth litigation tactics. Every company who does this eventually gets the tar kicked out of them. Google will learn this in due time.
A better approach would be for these companies to license before use.
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"All those companies should have pooled their funds together and fought the lawsuit."
This sounds like the making of a good civil RICO case.
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A group of serial infringers, capitalists when they are selling and socialists when they are dealing with inventors.
Now, capital punishments for infringers does have some merit.
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Actually is is easy for the patent office to keep saying no & this is how the backlog became so large. Big business interests usually have an entitlement mentality and think that they should have the right (much like Mike) to take inventions without compensating the inventor. In fact, the whole troll thing was cooked up by Intel when a small company that they had run into bankruptcy sold some important patents to another party. In that way the inventor was able deal a blow to their persecutors.
Big companies like to whine about venue, yet for many decades they took advantage of venue to get the court of their choice to rubber stamp their theft of inventors patent property rights. While they still own some venues they don't own them all.
What is important today is that these companies do have the ability to influence the USPTO to run interference on their behalf. In fact, their influence even extends to being able to hand pick top USPTO leadership regardless of which party is in power.
Big business is not very inventive. There is a big difference between filing for lots of patents and actually producing a really significant invention. Small incremental inventions do have value, but in a different way than more important inventions.
Anyway, the goal of big business is to turn the patent system into a kings sport. Endless rejections of small entity patents is one way to do this. Patent Deform legislation is another.
Public relations campaigns in the form of paid bloggers, buying select journalists or at least buying their employers with advertising revenue is another. Putting select academics on their payroll is yet another.
They cannot invent but they are very effective at propaganda.
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"Ah, the royal "we." From my experience many more people understand these arguments and recognize my position rather than come to "disrespect me." The only people I've seen get upset are folks who abuse the system for profit."
As far as I know the "we" does not include any royalty, I expect that TechDIRT is beneath their notice. But to be frank, you have acquired a reputation in the inventor community. People make fun of you ignorance about the system all the time.
The Constitution spells out rights for inventors and those rights are implemented in patent law. Patents have economic value and when others copy inventions covered by a patent which is in force the owners of those patents have the right to seek redress. Suing a sleazy thieving infringer is not abusing the system. It is defending a property right.
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At last we have found common ground, there is most certainly not shortage of ignorant "arrogant jackasses" among TechDIRT lemmings.
On your second point I submit that EVERYONE's job is impacted by intellectual property and that America is better off for it. Our collective high standard of living cannot be sustained in a global economy if not for the new wealth created by inventors.
TechDIRT is an example of this, big companies feed off others inventions. TechDIRT feeds off those big companies and curries appears favor in a variety of ways.
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It has been my experience that Mike Masnick cites fringe sources and corporate stooges.
Beyond that, Mike Masnick ignores the substantive issues in replies, instead focusing on minuscule and unimportant aspects of such replies in an attempt to mask the fact that his position on patent issues are flat out wrong.
The way Mike Masnick argues reminds me of the way an attorney whose client in in the wrong argues.
We see a stream of people visit TechDIRT who offer reasoned positions who fairly quickly come to disrespect Mike Masnick. They are in my view well justified.
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maybe you need to consider how your conduct causes people to decide it is not worth making a substantive response.
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On the post: Why Imitation Gets A Bad Rap... And Why Companies Need To Be More Serious About Copying
Leapfroging
Often better solutions come from efforts to invent around another invention. It is this process which rapidly advances technology.
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Someone has to be original.
Others are creative. They invent new things, products, business methods, etc. Then the copy cat hucksters come out in droves.
When they get caught copying they rationalize that they are just as creative as the person who produced the original ideas.
Well, they are not.
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Re: You are not RIGHT Mike..
It is common for Mike to make comments like this when someone gets his goat. He does not like it when people give him a taste of his own medicine.
That said, he deserves credit for for respecting free speech.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Perfectly Simple Fix
Maybe this is cover to throw people off?
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A Billion Dollars Is Reasonable
What is the cost in terms of man hours of spam. I am willing to bet that lost productivity is far more than a billion dollars. The fine is reasonable.
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On the post: Why Have So Many Companies Settled Over Ridiculous Patent For 'Online Music Distribution'?
Re: Re: Re: Let's remember - Gluld was the real inventor!!
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/69.html,
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/gould.html,
http ://electronicdesign.com/article/components/gordon-gould-the-long-battle-for-the-laser-patent1. aspx
There has been a problem for some time with professors and others trying to claim student's inventions as their own. It is a shame that Townes did this, because he already had his place in history for the invention of the Maser. As it is, he sullied his reputation.
A good book about this is:
Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War [Hardcover]
http://www.amazon.com/Laser-Inventor-Laureate-Thirty-Year-Patent/dp/0684835150
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On the post: Why Have So Many Companies Settled Over Ridiculous Patent For 'Online Music Distribution'?
Re: A good argument for old notion of "unearned" income.
Big transnational companies float the same red herring arguments all the time. An invention is a product just like when someone buys engineering. No one can produce a product without both the inventions which define the product and the engineering which allows the product to be produced.
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Dead Wrong Again
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/69.html,
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/gould.html,
http://electronicdesign.com/article/components/gordon-gould-the-long-battle-for-the-laser-patent1. aspx
There has been a problem for some time with professors and others trying to claim student's inventions as their own. It is a shame that Townes did this, because he already had his place in history for the invention of the Maser. As it is, he sullied his reputation.
A good book about this is:
Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War [Hardcover]
http://www.amazon.com/Laser-Inventor-Laureate-Thirty-Year-Patent/dp/0684835150
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On the post: Why Have So Many Companies Settled Over Ridiculous Patent For 'Online Music Distribution'?
Mike Has It Wrong Again
Not so. Companies who are defendants virtually always challenge patent validity through reexamination.
"A patent is approved after just a few hours of review by a patent examiner who is unlikely to be aware of the state of the art."
Again, not true. Hundreds of hours, sometimes many thousands of hours go into presenting a patent application. Then the examiner gets an average of twenty hours to weigh the merits of the submission. They are experts in the art of the submitted application. If they don't have enough time they reject the application, forcing the applicant to pay again and they have another twenty+ hours.
"This is why the presumption of validity makes no sense"
What doesn't make sense is Mike Masnick's constant misrepresentation of facts.
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On the post: Why Have So Many Companies Settled Over Ridiculous Patent For 'Online Music Distribution'?
Re: Let's remember
Gould was a quiet man which at least initially hid a very sharp intellect.
It took Gould thirty years of litigation to get his due. Just like today, big business was able to harass Gould by influencing the patent office.
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Re: Re: Long term
They do pressure, but inventors have put together a coalition which keeps coming up with creative ways to torpedo their efforts.
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Re: Long term
All the long term planners were either tossed out or left over short term management. Those are often the people who are inventing and suing the crap out of big companies when they misappropriate inventions.
Microsoft, RIM, Apple, Google have all tried scorched earth litigation tactics. Every company who does this eventually gets the tar kicked out of them. Google will learn this in due time.
A better approach would be for these companies to license before use.
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Serial Infringers & RICO
This sounds like the making of a good civil RICO case.
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Serial Infringers & Capital Punishment
A group of serial infringers, capitalists when they are selling and socialists when they are dealing with inventors.
Now, capital punishments for infringers does have some merit.
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Big companies like to whine about venue, yet for many decades they took advantage of venue to get the court of their choice to rubber stamp their theft of inventors patent property rights. While they still own some venues they don't own them all.
What is important today is that these companies do have the ability to influence the USPTO to run interference on their behalf. In fact, their influence even extends to being able to hand pick top USPTO leadership regardless of which party is in power.
Big business is not very inventive. There is a big difference between filing for lots of patents and actually producing a really significant invention. Small incremental inventions do have value, but in a different way than more important inventions.
Anyway, the goal of big business is to turn the patent system into a kings sport. Endless rejections of small entity patents is one way to do this. Patent Deform legislation is another.
Public relations campaigns in the form of paid bloggers, buying select journalists or at least buying their employers with advertising revenue is another. Putting select academics on their payroll is yet another.
They cannot invent but they are very effective at propaganda.
Ronald J. Riley,
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Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
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Mike Masnick In Denial
As far as I know the "we" does not include any royalty, I expect that TechDIRT is beneath their notice. But to be frank, you have acquired a reputation in the inventor community. People make fun of you ignorance about the system all the time.
The Constitution spells out rights for inventors and those rights are implemented in patent law. Patents have economic value and when others copy inventions covered by a patent which is in force the owners of those patents have the right to seek redress. Suing a sleazy thieving infringer is not abusing the system. It is defending a property right.
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
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On your second point I submit that EVERYONE's job is impacted by intellectual property and that America is better off for it. Our collective high standard of living cannot be sustained in a global economy if not for the new wealth created by inventors.
TechDIRT is an example of this, big companies feed off others inventions. TechDIRT feeds off those big companies and curries appears favor in a variety of ways.
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
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Beyond that, Mike Masnick ignores the substantive issues in replies, instead focusing on minuscule and unimportant aspects of such replies in an attempt to mask the fact that his position on patent issues are flat out wrong.
The way Mike Masnick argues reminds me of the way an attorney whose client in in the wrong argues.
We see a stream of people visit TechDIRT who offer reasoned positions who fairly quickly come to disrespect Mike Masnick. They are in my view well justified.
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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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness
maybe you need to consider how your conduct causes people to decide it is not worth making a substantive response.
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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