"basically a collection of anti-patent shills, it's hard to take the vote seriously"
Like Mike Masnick?
Inventors are and always will be a minority in every art area. Where software is concerned it is going to be an even smaller minority.
Most programmers do not have any engineering background. They do not have higher level math training. This is one reason why they cannot grasp how hardware and software are often interchangeable.
I have both hardware and software background from coding in raw machine language to many higher level languages (about 45 years worth). I also have extensive hardware background including analog and digital. This is not common which is why most programmers are not capable of seeing how hardware and software are interchangeable.
I have hired many engineers and programmers in the course of my career. I have found that most programmers have rigid thought processes, a trait which is good for being a drone who cranks out endless code with marginally different goals. It is not conducive to their ability to invent.
These people's egos get in the way of their understanding the difference between their contribution and that of others whose skill set makes them inventors.
In my opinion Mike Masnick suffers from the same problems I have seen in lower level programmers.
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.
"If you're successful, there's no shortage of people who will demand a cut of your success."
Ever inventor who produces an invention with significant economic value faces this problem. Some sleazy marketing huckster comes along, steals one or more inventions, combines them into a product and beats their chest while claiming to be innovators.
It is a good thing that I have not been holding my breath waiting for Mike to show us one of his inventions. Marketing drivel does not count as an invention.
Ronald J. Riley,
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Re: significant person President Riley professionally comments on important issue...
If the shoe fits go ahead and steal it. The majority of TechDIRT fans are long on opinions and really short on knowledge of patents, inventing and how disreputable big companies are in their dealings with us.
It would actually serve all of you right if big companies had their way in this. You could spend the rest of your miserable existences as serfs feeding big corporate coffers.
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.
"Of value to whom, the patent holder? Doesn't mean it's of value to everyone else."
If the patent is being infringed then clearly it had value. A patent which is not ever infringed still may have value as a stepping stone to finding a more complete solution and may even catalyze a completely different solution.
When I produced what I thought was an invention I would study patents related to the concept. In the process I would go through large number of patents. Sometimes I would see that the patents missed something related to my concept and that would lead to my expanding the scope of the invention. Sometime I found that there was prior art which limited my original idea to the point it was not worth further pursing my idea. And quite often looking at all those patent gave me insights which led to yet other inventions.
When inventing one goes through a great deal of chaff in order to find a few nuggets of value. In my experience only half a percent of potential inventions were worth my time to take all the way.
In many cases the determination on what was worth my had noting to do with an invention itself and everything to do with how nasty a specific industry is in their dealings with inventors.
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 an inventor or someone who invests in an inventor who has the gall to defend their patent property rights.
I am an inventor and I have most certainly kicked the crap out of corporate patent property thieves.
Even more important is that I have spent over twenty years organizing inventors, teaching them how to defend their rights, and cultivating interest in the legal community for their partnering with aggrieved inventors.
It is clear that many TechDIRT readers follow the herd mentality and do not consider the implications of undermining the patent system.
It is simple, if all of America does not prosper then our standard of living will continue to drop. No patents means that all of our inventions will be taken by big companies to developing countries and all will become commodity items.
That means there would be nothing to allow us to have a higher standard of living then then others.
Small companies use patents to drive higher profits. Higher profits allow higher wages.
Transnational corporations make their profits in large part by stealing from others and every transaction where they are profiting is undermining everyone else. They use their profits to buy cover, one example being their troll media campaign. Another being IBM placing their chief patent counsel in charge of the USPTO. GE placing one of their own, CEO Jeff Immelt as leader the new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. A Microsoft stooge in Commerce and on and on.
We have the best government transnational corporations can buy. It does not matter which party is in control. We have sovereign nations dancing to the drummer of sovereign corporations.
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.
Based on feedback from more than one source I do not recommend that inventors sell their patents top IV. The reason being that I do not think that IV pays inventors a fair amount.
The only reason IV is able to do this is that whole industries use independent and small business inventions without acquiring rights to do so and then dare inventors to do something about it. They know that most of the time they will get away with this.
Returning to IV it is clear that they are expanding on areas which they are investing in with original research which does teach via patents. While IV may be preying on and taking advantage of an artificially low market and they are bare knuckled business players they still create a market where small entities are not able to do so.
IV is filling a market niche which big companies created with their disreputable conduct. IV, to a small degree, and other companies more so are blazing a trail and creating a liquid market for the most important asset America has, patent protected American ingenuity.
Eventually, big players will stop rationalizing their theft of others inventions, not because they are ethical, because big companies rarely are, but because the liability of massive patent theft will simply become too expensive.
The big issue here is that when transnational corp[orations steal patent property rights from small business they are also stealing jobs from all of us. We cannot allow companies who are responsible for moving so many jobs out of America to also steal the asset which drives new job creation.
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: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
Welch,
I see that you have chosen to bury your head in the sand. Yor comments serve as a glowing example of why this forum's content is knows as TechDIRT Drivel.
Which it does by conferring exclusive use of an invention to inventors who teach via a patent.
"not to prevent those that you deem to be 'parasites' from competing in a market place."
You are flat out wrong.
Your problem is that you have never had an original thought. You are smart enough to understand that you do not have what it takes and not smart enough to understand ethics.
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.
Patent infringement is not legitimate use, and that is why courts are handing infringers their heads. If it was legitimate use we would not have all the parasites howling about their or the potential for their being held accountable.
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.
""More importantly, if a patent is granted and then sold to someone else, is the patent itself not a product?"
Now you're just dishonestly obfuscating the issue. When I say that the patent never makes it to product, I am clearly referring to the product that the patent is describing.
Granting patents simply for the sake of selling them to patent trolls is an abuse of our system."
It is you who are being dishonest. Patents are a product just like a set of house blueprints. The reason that so called patent trolls are able to buy patents is that big companies, literally whole industries stand together and say they are going to use and go ahead and sue.
Also, one does not ave to manufacture in order to ave produced something of value. The proof of this is in a long stream of court rulings where one big company after another has to invest in personal lube.
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.
"it's small enough that that plus legal fees is barely a blip on a large multi-national's financial radar, and they generally make so much more money from Breaking the law than they pay in fines for doing so that it just becomes a 'cost of doing business'."
This is true of the patent war between independent inventors and transnational corporations. The reason that they are blatantly steals others inventions is that it is profitable to do so. While a $100 or $500 million judgment seems like a staggering sum it is small change when compared to their total profits from patent piracy.
These companies promote Patent Reform because their vision of reform is one where they can steal all inventions.
I love being an independent inventor. It allows me to pursue whatever technology which interests me the most. But like everyone I need to pay my own way.
Big companies have not had the will or gumption for a very long time to think beyond one or two quarters. For the good of society someone has to be handling long term planning. Independent inventors and small business does this and we cannot do so unless we receive fair compensation for our work. Big companies see fair as them taking what they want.
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.
"It's ripe time to get put the patent-trolls in there place"
A patent troll s nothing more or less than an inventor or someone who invested in the inventor who has the gall to defend their property right.
"perfect time we point out the monopoly of a patent."
Good boy, you figured out that a patent is an exclusive right. I suggest that you read article 1, section 8. An inventor buys exclusive use from the government by teaching their invention. Teaching is done with a patent, typically at a cost of at least three years and a hundred thousand dollars and up.
I sincerely hope that all of the X generation is not this poorly informed.
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.
"That's one of the problems with IP law, the potential penalties for infringement are huge"
Damages are based on ? Guess what, actual damages. And then the court looks at the infringer's conduct, and if it was willful they enhance damages to 1.5 or maybe two times and if it was really outrageous damages might be tippled.
RIM was accessed large damages because the court caught them foisting manufactured evidence on the court.
For some reason when courts find that a defendant has tried to commit fraud on them they tend to think that the defendant might be capable of much more wrongdoing.
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.
Lawyers are just hired mercenaries. The whole point of the legal system is to determine blame. It is a fact that inventors are frequently found to be in the right and big companies are found to be wrong. One notable example of this was RIM, they were found to be wrong to the tune of $612 million. And despite all they PR hype, their influence peddling, nearly unlimited resources, at the end of the day they were caught red handed and held accountable for stealing from a lone inventor.
Every patent thief makes the kind of claims which Fark has made. It is up to the court to decide who is right and wrong. For some reason I think that when the dust settles that Fark will be whining about justice being served just like RIM.
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.
"Google is a good example of a company that's targeted for bogus anti-trust suits"
No, Google is a good example of a young punk of a company who presses all the boundaries. Eventually they will have their wings trimmed, and 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.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
"letting a company patent an invention of nature."
It is a fact that people have for a long time lived & died in ignorance of their genetic fate. It is also a fact that if patents are not allowed no one is going to do the necessary research. It follows that when it comes to other genetic time bombs other than this one that people will continue to die for lack of diagnostic tests.
No inventor is at fault for your bad genes. So going ahead you will be able to die in ignorance as people have been doing since the dawn of time.
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: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
Programmers
Like Mike Masnick?
Inventors are and always will be a minority in every art area. Where software is concerned it is going to be an even smaller minority.
Most programmers do not have any engineering background. They do not have higher level math training. This is one reason why they cannot grasp how hardware and software are often interchangeable.
I have both hardware and software background from coding in raw machine language to many higher level languages (about 45 years worth). I also have extensive hardware background including analog and digital. This is not common which is why most programmers are not capable of seeing how hardware and software are interchangeable.
I have hired many engineers and programmers in the course of my career. I have found that most programmers have rigid thought processes, a trait which is good for being a drone who cranks out endless code with marginally different goals. It is not conducive to their ability to invent.
These people's egos get in the way of their understanding the difference between their contribution and that of others whose skill set makes them inventors.
In my opinion Mike Masnick suffers from the same problems I have seen in lower level programmers.
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.
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No Shortage Of Hucksters
Ever inventor who produces an invention with significant economic value faces this problem. Some sleazy marketing huckster comes along, steals one or more inventions, combines them into a product and beats their chest while claiming to be innovators.
It is a good thing that I have not been holding my breath waiting for Mike to show us one of his inventions. Marketing drivel does not count as an invention.
Ronald J. Riley,
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Re: significant person President Riley professionally comments on important issue...
It would actually serve all of you right if big companies had their way in this. You could spend the rest of your miserable existences as serfs feeding big corporate coffers.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Re: Re: Big Corporate Abuse
Time for you to go back to school. Or, you could infringe a valid patent an find that you no longer have any real property.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
If the patent is being infringed then clearly it had value. A patent which is not ever infringed still may have value as a stepping stone to finding a more complete solution and may even catalyze a completely different solution.
When I produced what I thought was an invention I would study patents related to the concept. In the process I would go through large number of patents. Sometimes I would see that the patents missed something related to my concept and that would lead to my expanding the scope of the invention. Sometime I found that there was prior art which limited my original idea to the point it was not worth further pursing my idea. And quite often looking at all those patent gave me insights which led to yet other inventions.
When inventing one goes through a great deal of chaff in order to find a few nuggets of value. In my experience only half a percent of potential inventions were worth my time to take all the way.
In many cases the determination on what was worth my had noting to do with an invention itself and everything to do with how nasty a specific industry is in their dealings with inventors.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Re: Re: Re: Possible better question
I am an inventor and I have most certainly kicked the crap out of corporate patent property thieves.
Even more important is that I have spent over twenty years organizing inventors, teaching them how to defend their rights, and cultivating interest in the legal community for their partnering with aggrieved inventors.
It is clear that many TechDIRT readers follow the herd mentality and do not consider the implications of undermining the patent system.
It is simple, if all of America does not prosper then our standard of living will continue to drop. No patents means that all of our inventions will be taken by big companies to developing countries and all will become commodity items.
That means there would be nothing to allow us to have a higher standard of living then then others.
Small companies use patents to drive higher profits. Higher profits allow higher wages.
Transnational corporations make their profits in large part by stealing from others and every transaction where they are profiting is undermining everyone else. They use their profits to buy cover, one example being their troll media campaign. Another being IBM placing their chief patent counsel in charge of the USPTO. GE placing one of their own, CEO Jeff Immelt as leader the new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. A Microsoft stooge in Commerce and on and on.
We have the best government transnational corporations can buy. It does not matter which party is in control. We have sovereign nations dancing to the drummer of sovereign corporations.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Re: Re: Parasites Limitations
The only reason IV is able to do this is that whole industries use independent and small business inventions without acquiring rights to do so and then dare inventors to do something about it. They know that most of the time they will get away with this.
Returning to IV it is clear that they are expanding on areas which they are investing in with original research which does teach via patents. While IV may be preying on and taking advantage of an artificially low market and they are bare knuckled business players they still create a market where small entities are not able to do so.
IV is filling a market niche which big companies created with their disreputable conduct. IV, to a small degree, and other companies more so are blazing a trail and creating a liquid market for the most important asset America has, patent protected American ingenuity.
Eventually, big players will stop rationalizing their theft of others inventions, not because they are ethical, because big companies rarely are, but because the liability of massive patent theft will simply become too expensive.
The big issue here is that when transnational corp[orations steal patent property rights from small business they are also stealing jobs from all of us. We cannot allow companies who are responsible for moving so many jobs out of America to also steal the asset which drives new job creation.
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: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
I see that you have chosen to bury your head in the sand. Yor comments serve as a glowing example of why this forum's content is knows as TechDIRT Drivel.
On the post: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Parasites Limitations
Which it does by conferring exclusive use of an invention to inventors who teach via a patent.
"not to prevent those that you deem to be 'parasites' from competing in a market place."
You are flat out wrong.
Your problem is that you have never had an original thought. You are smart enough to understand that you do not have what it takes and not smart enough to understand ethics.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Courts are handing infringers their heads.
Patent infringement is not legitimate use, and that is why courts are handing infringers their heads. If it was legitimate use we would not have all the parasites howling about their or the potential for their being held accountable.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Big Corporate Abuse
I agree, big companies abuse the system as a way to abuse inventors and their property rights also sickens me.
It is long past time penalties for willful infringement be made much more severe.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Now you're just dishonestly obfuscating the issue. When I say that the patent never makes it to product, I am clearly referring to the product that the patent is describing.
Granting patents simply for the sake of selling them to patent trolls is an abuse of our system."
It is you who are being dishonest. Patents are a product just like a set of house blueprints. The reason that so called patent trolls are able to buy patents is that big companies, literally whole industries stand together and say they are going to use and go ahead and sue.
Also, one does not ave to manufacture in order to ave produced something of value. The proof of this is in a long stream of court rulings where one big company after another has to invest in personal lube.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
This is true of the patent war between independent inventors and transnational corporations. The reason that they are blatantly steals others inventions is that it is profitable to do so. While a $100 or $500 million judgment seems like a staggering sum it is small change when compared to their total profits from patent piracy.
These companies promote Patent Reform because their vision of reform is one where they can steal all inventions.
I love being an independent inventor. It allows me to pursue whatever technology which interests me the most. But like everyone I need to pay my own way.
Big companies have not had the will or gumption for a very long time to think beyond one or two quarters. For the good of society someone has to be handling long term planning. Independent inventors and small business does this and we cannot do so unless we receive fair compensation for our work. Big companies see fair as them taking what they want.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Re: Possible better question
A patent troll s nothing more or less than an inventor or someone who invested in the inventor who has the gall to defend their property right.
"perfect time we point out the monopoly of a patent."
Good boy, you figured out that a patent is an exclusive right. I suggest that you read article 1, section 8. An inventor buys exclusive use from the government by teaching their invention. Teaching is done with a patent, typically at a cost of at least three years and a hundred thousand dollars and up.
I sincerely hope that all of the X generation is not this poorly informed.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
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Damages are based on ? Guess what, actual damages. And then the court looks at the infringer's conduct, and if it was willful they enhance damages to 1.5 or maybe two times and if it was really outrageous damages might be tippled.
RIM was accessed large damages because the court caught them foisting manufactured evidence on the court.
For some reason when courts find that a defendant has tried to commit fraud on them they tend to think that the defendant might be capable of much more wrongdoing.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
Re: Blame Lawyers
Every patent thief makes the kind of claims which Fark has made. It is up to the court to decide who is right and wrong. For some reason I think that when the dust settles that Fark will be whining about justice being served just like RIM.
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: Fark Points Out That Even Though It Doesn't Come Close To Infringing On Patent, It Still Has To Go To Court
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No, Google is a good example of a young punk of a company who presses all the boundaries. Eventually they will have their wings trimmed, and 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: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
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On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
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It is a fact that people have for a long time lived & died in ignorance of their genetic fate. It is also a fact that if patents are not allowed no one is going to do the necessary research. It follows that when it comes to other genetic time bombs other than this one that people will continue to die for lack of diagnostic tests.
No inventor is at fault for your bad genes. So going ahead you will be able to die in ignorance as people have been doing since the dawn of time.
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: Sony Continues To Attack PS3 Jailbreakers: Threatens To Cut Them Off From PlayStation Network
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Which is why when I see Sony on an ad I immediately move on.
Sony is like Apple, the only difference being tat most people have not caught on.
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