Really? How much were the damages which were awarded. It sure looks like theft to me.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
In other words you do no develop inventions and feel entitled to make money on those who do.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
(the laws are only designed to protect the guilty)
If that were the case most of the patent pirates who hang out on TechDIRT would be enjoying state hospitality.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
How do you explain how so many little companies are winning battles against Microsoft? After all, Microsoft has all the resources they need to have their day in court and they are still losing case after case.
Law is not perfect, especially when it is David versus Goliath. When the Davids keep winning in spite of their financial disadvantage that should tell you something.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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 made the mistake of going to a chiropractor about twenty years ago. She took xrays of me and they came out completely washed out. For readers who do not understand what this means, she exposed me to far too much radiation.
I have come into contact with quite a number of chiropractors over the years and had them try to BS me about what they could do. I think based on these experiences that there are quite a few quacks in the profession.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
"then just paying his costs so far would bankrupt them."
I don't like loser pays because I think it gives more advantage to those with deep pockets but in this case BCA going bankrupt, followed by regulation would be quite gratifying.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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 am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
It is my hope that consumer protection agencies worldwide will now take notice of outrageous claims and force Chiropractors to quite claiming that they cane cure auto-immune illnesses and other claims which are not supported by hard evidence. This kind of clampdown would serve the public's interest and it would be poetic justice if such came out of this case.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
Mike, how can you continue to defend a company like Microsoft when they have been repeatedly caught with their sticky fingers in others patent cookie jar. Have you ever bothered to to actually review any of these cases and seen how atrocious Microsoft's and other members of the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness has been?
Do you know that the threshold to make holding patent thieves accountable is in the ten to one-hundred million range and that below that amount Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness members get a free pass to steal. Are you aware that for every high profile case where a member of the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness is held accountable that there are scores of cases where the damages are too low to make enforcement economically viable?
Big companies continue to steal independent and small company patent rights because doing so is profitable.
Microsoft and other large companies have considered Patent Deform legislation. That legislation is designed so that small entities will be able to get patents but will not be able to hold on to them. It is designed to turn the patent system into a kings sport by raising the costs of defending a patent and it is designed to greatly limit the ability of small entities to get contingency representation by lowering the amount of damages when the big entities are caught stealing. While the threshold to economically sue is currently in the ten to one-hundred dollar range Patent Deform would increase the by one to two orders of magnitude.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
Large numbers of complaints and removal of complaints rather than a published retraction are in my opinion Prima Facie Evidence of a SCAM.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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 quit school because of them and the teachers were happy i quit"
Based on the posters writing I wonder if they are ADD, Dyslexic, Asperger or suffer from some other affliction.
Our brains are complex and different parts do not communicate well with each other. We see a large percentage of these issues in the inventor community.
I have long suspected that some of our brains are wired differently and that is a big factor in the left handed approach which leads to inventors finding new and unexpected solutions to problems.
This also plays a role in people being loners and the fact that they often simply do not fit well in society. Yet it is a fact that these people often go on to produce great things. They are a valuable resource and they need to be protected from majority dictatorships.
Phoebe Prince probably fit this profile and it was the schools responsibility to have protected her. They didn't and now she is dead. That is BS of the worst kind.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
Most certainly those who claim to speak for god are often self righteous bullies.
Think about this, it was not that long ago that pious bible thumpers would lynch a black person on Saturday night and go to church on Sunday. In fact, they are still doing this to gays.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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 was asthmatic, scrawny and wore eyeglasses from five on. My interests were not the same as most kids and I was bullied for years.
When I and my parents complained to the principle she said that boys would be boys and I would have to take my lumps like the rest.
In sixth grade I decided I had had enough. By then I was really into science and I took a squirt-gun to school with diluted ammonia. When the bully and his support group stopped me on the way home from school I told him he better leave me alone or he would be sorry.
He shoved me and I squired him in the eyes, kneed him in the most appropriate location and after knocking him down I spent some time jumping on the sob's chest.
The next day the principle called my parents and I in to discuss expelling me. My parents explained that boys will be boys and they would sue the school if they expelled me.
While from time to time some dim wad would threaten me no one dared to lay a hand on me from then on.
From that day on I was defending other kids who were bullied and the bullies knew that I would fix their wagons if they took me on.
That turned out to be great training for becoming an inventor, because big companies are bullies just like we had in school and just like school most people rationalize that the bullies would be allowed free reign.
It is kind of neat that I am doing the same kind of work today which I did then, adjusting bullies attitudes, except today on a much larger playground.
For one reason or another many kids march to a different drummer. They have a right to a good education free of being abused by the knuckleheads.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
Chronno S. Trigger says "Please, please remove your reproductive organs now. You should not reproduce."
I would argue that Chronno S. Trigger and the boys should be turned in Eunuchs.
Bullying is a huge problem and school administrators have a long history of not dealing with the problem. When a victim goes berserk and kills or some poor soul commits suicide those same administrators are quick to blame the child.
Some people have been known to say that "Those who can do and those who cannot teach." While this is true of some teachers is is unfair to those who teach because they love to learn and to see others learn. My version of this is "Those who cannot teach become coaches and administrators."
I am a big believer in a universal public education but I am also profoundly disappointed with our public schools.
In the end blame for the problem lies at the feet of incompetent and uncaring administrators. It is their fault that this situation was allowed to escalate to this point.
They and the school should be sued for this. The parents of the kids who persecuted the girl should be sued. The boys who used her should be turned in Eunuchs to ensure that they do not prey on other young ladies [ok maybe that is too extreme, but she is dead and all the perpetrators should be beat within an inch of their lives :)]
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
You need to look at how Microsoft is getting so much money and why the courts keep handing Microsoft their head.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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 love the irony of stating that you are speaking on your own behalf followed immediately by list affiliations"
How about telling us who you are and what your affiliations are? Then your comments might have some credibility.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
It is hard to imagine anyplace or anyone giving poorer legal advice than the drivel on TechDIRT.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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.
"Technically, we're told, patents only are supposed to apply to specific inventions"
Patents do apply to specific inventions but what you see on the surface of a product is does not necessarily have much to do with what is happening internally. It is possible to have very different interfaces for an invention.
On top of this is the fact that Microsoft is repeatedly sued and repeatedly is losing suits. They have repeatedly been subjected to punitive damages for willfulness.
In other words the best explanation for Microsoft's legal problems is that they are a company whose business model is built on systematic infringement of other's inventions.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: CAFC Won't Rehear Patent Case Of Editing XML
Re: Re: troubling NOT
Really? How much were the damages which were awarded. It sure looks like theft to me.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: CAFC Won't Rehear Patent Case Of Editing XML
Re: Re: Re: Is it just me???
In other words you do no develop inventions and feel entitled to make money on those who do.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Patent Reform Bill Would Curtail Lawsuits Against Those Who Falsely Claim Patent Protection
Re: Re: Re:
If that were the case most of the patent pirates who hang out on TechDIRT would be enjoying state hospitality.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: CAFC Won't Rehear Patent Case Of Editing XML
Re: Is it just me???
Law is not perfect, especially when it is David versus Goliath. When the Davids keep winning in spite of their financial disadvantage that should tell you something.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Court Says Simon Singh Can Claim 'Fair Comment' In Calling BCA Claims Bogus
It is up to chiropractors to prove their claims.
I made the mistake of going to a chiropractor about twenty years ago. She took xrays of me and they came out completely washed out. For readers who do not understand what this means, she exposed me to far too much radiation.
I have come into contact with quite a number of chiropractors over the years and had them try to BS me about what they could do. I think based on these experiences that there are quite a few quacks in the profession.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Court Says Simon Singh Can Claim 'Fair Comment' In Calling BCA Claims Bogus
Re: The BCA can't afford to lose
I don't like loser pays because I think it gives more advantage to those with deep pockets but in this case BCA going bankrupt, followed by regulation would be quite gratifying.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Court Says Simon Singh Can Claim 'Fair Comment' In Calling BCA Claims Bogus
Witch Doctors
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Court Says Simon Singh Can Claim 'Fair Comment' In Calling BCA Claims Bogus
Chiropractic Claims Are Bogus
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: CAFC Won't Rehear Patent Case Of Editing XML
How Can Mike Masnick Defend Microsoft?
Do you know that the threshold to make holding patent thieves accountable is in the ten to one-hundred million range and that below that amount Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness members get a free pass to steal. Are you aware that for every high profile case where a member of the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness is held accountable that there are scores of cases where the damages are too low to make enforcement economically viable?
Big companies continue to steal independent and small company patent rights because doing so is profitable.
Microsoft and other large companies have considered Patent Deform legislation. That legislation is designed so that small entities will be able to get patents but will not be able to hold on to them. It is designed to turn the patent system into a kings sport by raising the costs of defending a patent and it is designed to greatly limit the ability of small entities to get contingency representation by lowering the amount of damages when the big entities are caught stealing. While the threshold to economically sue is currently in the ten to one-hundred dollar range Patent Deform would increase the by one to two orders of magnitude.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: CyberDefender Threatens Consumer Advocate With Defamation Claim
Complaints Prima Facie Evidense
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Teens Face Felony Charges Over Girl Who Committed Suicide
Phoebe Prince, Age 15
On the post: Teens Face Felony Charges Over Girl Who Committed Suicide
Staying in school.
Based on the posters writing I wonder if they are ADD, Dyslexic, Asperger or suffer from some other affliction.
Our brains are complex and different parts do not communicate well with each other. We see a large percentage of these issues in the inventor community.
I have long suspected that some of our brains are wired differently and that is a big factor in the left handed approach which leads to inventors finding new and unexpected solutions to problems.
This also plays a role in people being loners and the fact that they often simply do not fit well in society. Yet it is a fact that these people often go on to produce great things. They are a valuable resource and they need to be protected from majority dictatorships.
Phoebe Prince probably fit this profile and it was the schools responsibility to have protected her. They didn't and now she is dead. That is BS of the worst kind.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Teens Face Felony Charges Over Girl Who Committed Suicide
Re: Re:
On the post: Teens Face Felony Charges Over Girl Who Committed Suicide
Religious Bullies
Think about this, it was not that long ago that pious bible thumpers would lynch a black person on Saturday night and go to church on Sunday. In fact, they are still doing this to gays.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Teens Face Felony Charges Over Girl Who Committed Suicide
Dealing with bullies
When I and my parents complained to the principle she said that boys would be boys and I would have to take my lumps like the rest.
In sixth grade I decided I had had enough. By then I was really into science and I took a squirt-gun to school with diluted ammonia. When the bully and his support group stopped me on the way home from school I told him he better leave me alone or he would be sorry.
He shoved me and I squired him in the eyes, kneed him in the most appropriate location and after knocking him down I spent some time jumping on the sob's chest.
The next day the principle called my parents and I in to discuss expelling me. My parents explained that boys will be boys and they would sue the school if they expelled me.
While from time to time some dim wad would threaten me no one dared to lay a hand on me from then on.
From that day on I was defending other kids who were bullied and the bullies knew that I would fix their wagons if they took me on.
That turned out to be great training for becoming an inventor, because big companies are bullies just like we had in school and just like school most people rationalize that the bullies would be allowed free reign.
It is kind of neat that I am doing the same kind of work today which I did then, adjusting bullies attitudes, except today on a much larger playground.
For one reason or another many kids march to a different drummer. They have a right to a good education free of being abused by the knuckleheads.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Teens Face Felony Charges Over Girl Who Committed Suicide
Eunuchs ??
I would argue that Chronno S. Trigger and the boys should be turned in Eunuchs.
Bullying is a huge problem and school administrators have a long history of not dealing with the problem. When a victim goes berserk and kills or some poor soul commits suicide those same administrators are quick to blame the child.
Some people have been known to say that "Those who can do and those who cannot teach." While this is true of some teachers is is unfair to those who teach because they love to learn and to see others learn. My version of this is "Those who cannot teach become coaches and administrators."
I am a big believer in a universal public education but I am also profoundly disappointed with our public schools.
In the end blame for the problem lies at the feet of incompetent and uncaring administrators. It is their fault that this situation was allowed to escalate to this point.
They and the school should be sued for this. The parents of the kids who persecuted the girl should be sued. The boys who used her should be turned in Eunuchs to ensure that they do not prey on other young ladies [ok maybe that is too extreme, but she is dead and all the perpetrators should be beat within an inch of their lives :)]
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Microsoft Sued Over Buy From FM Zune Feature, Despite It Functioning Differently Than The Patent
Microsoft Money
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Microsoft Sued Over Buy From FM Zune Feature, Despite It Functioning Differently Than The Patent
How about telling us who you are and what your affiliations are? Then your comments might have some credibility.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Microsoft Sued Over Buy From FM Zune Feature, Despite It Functioning Differently Than The Patent
Re: FM
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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: Microsoft Sued Over Buy From FM Zune Feature, Despite It Functioning Differently Than The Patent
Patents do apply to specific inventions but what you see on the surface of a product is does not necessarily have much to do with what is happening internally. It is possible to have very different interfaces for an invention.
On top of this is the fact that Microsoft is repeatedly sued and repeatedly is losing suits. They have repeatedly been subjected to punitive damages for willfulness.
In other words the best explanation for Microsoft's legal problems is that they are a company whose business model is built on systematic infringement of other's inventions.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
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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