"Now, if you are referring to the "artificial jobs" that are to provide unnecessary services to a nation desperately in need of "tangible wealth producers", well then, I agree with you."
Mike does not produce new wealth like an inventor does.
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.
A number of big businesses who infringed my patents thought the same, and while they we busy being overconfident I ate their lunch :)
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.
"This is very similar to the government mandating that you put seatbelts and airbags in cars, only in this case someone holds a patent on the technology in question"
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.
One of thousands of examples is Spread Spectrum technology which was invented during WW-II and it is the backbone of communications today.
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.
"When are people going to learn personal responsibility?"
Such responsibility applies equally to users and makers of products. I think it is incredibly bad business to maim and kill one's customers.
I have a wood shop with all the typical tools. It is a fact that all of us make mistakes, especially Mike when he starts talking about patents.
This case is a perfect example of the trials inventors go through. They produce great inventions and try to license them. Companies refuse their advances and the inventor may start a company as happened in this case.
Something happens in the market which makes the invention desirable to all the players, in this case product liability.
Now all the players will need to either invent an alternative or pay the inventor. Many of the companies will probably try to steal the invention.
In virtually all cases larger companies have economies of scale which small companies cannot achieve. So while the infringer is making money without any of the development costs and driving the product's price down greatly lowering the inventor's profit they are also faced with legal costs.
This puts an inventor such as SawStop into a crisis situation, loss of everything or having to spend five or more years litigating to protect their rights.
Far too may inventors are destroyed at this stage of the game and their loss pales compared to the loss which society suffers in terms of jobs and prosperity.
This is why I founded the Professional inventors Alliance twenty years ago. For every inventor who has the skills and luck to survive there are probably a hundred or more who do not. This is not so much about the fate of each inventor as it is about loss of subsequent inventions and the impact that has on our whole economy.
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.
These guys flat out refuse to license inventions from smaller entities. Their approach to to take what they want and then try to litigate inventors into submission.
The only reason that IV has been able to buy so many patents is that big companies leave those patents on the market. So there is some poetic justice in someone acquiring those patents and then kicking the tar out of the infringers.
Inventions are property and it is long past time that big companies have to respect those rights. If companies had been buying up rights IV would not have a business and once the dust settles IV will no longer be able to buy patents dirt cheap.
This is the essence of capitalism.
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.
Weapons development has provided a staggering number of inventions to civilians.
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.
Never Proves Anything / Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nathan
Mike Masnick said:
"Who Needs Facts?" Huh? Why'd you change your name? Besides, I thought last time we heard from you you said you were never reading this site again. That was after I proved, conclusively, that you were the one who repeatedly got your facts wrong, and all I asked for was a simple easy apology."
And that is as far as I read because you frequently fail to prove anything and most certaintly you did not do so this time.
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.
What did we have before lawyers? Trial by combat? A sovereign deciding?
Everything has flaws but some solutions are always better than others.
Law may not be perfect but it is better than the alternatives.
And most lawyers are trying to the right thing. Most certainly the law profession has a higher ethical standard than what we see 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.
This product stops the blade by jamming an aluminum block into it. The block has the electronics inside and it is only good for two stops.
The product is engineered to make you buy an expensive replacement unit (kind of like Apple garbage). That creates a huge opportunity to invent a better mechanism whose life is longer. The fact that it is not retrofittable is another huge market.
If you can invent a better solution which does not infringe then you will strike it rich. If you cannot then that says that this invention is pretty important and worth paying the price.
This is the way the system works and it does work very well. The patent system is a major reason for America being a world economic leader.
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 government is not outlawing free speech, they are simply putting those who protest the government in jail or, worse, executing them."
This is true in other parts of the world but not in the US. Most certainty some corporations try to abridge the First Amendment in a multitude of ways and there are some judges who overstep their authority but in both cases they do get slapped down.
As to lying, actions speak louder than words and unfortunately Mike's anti inventor, or at least anti inventor profiting from their inventions stand is very clear. Irrational but clear.
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 Masnick, I understand that you dislike inventors and patents, perhaps due to feelings of inadequacy, but this is really incredibly harebrained reasoning.
The government is not mandating use of this invention, the court simply said that a company which allows a user to be injured is liable.
This situation is where the patent system shines, in that other saw makers now have a reason to try and produce an alternative invention. I have a friend who has one of these saws and have looked at it. Without even trying I can see ways to improve this.
This is not an area which I am interested in working because I believe that my time is best spent protecting America's inventors from parasitic interests like transnational companies and hordes of their stooges but it is a great opportunity for someone.
You say "Old saws can't be retrofitted". I can see ways to retrofit, can you? Maybe you should invent another way to stop the blade, that is if you can, and then spend lots of time and money to create an alternative and then give it away? That would warm my heart.
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.
Common ground can mean that people agree on one issue while continuing to disagree on another.
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.
We are in the process of converting InventorEd to Drupal at this time. InventorEd services people all over the world, many of whom are using older computers and may be on dialup or radio link communications (outback) which are costly. So InventorEd was intentionally designed for low bandwidth. And yes, it was designed starting in the 1990s and has been through two major updates. It was created in raw html initially and then maintained with Front Page because doing so was easy. And yes, I do realize that Front Page produces crappy code but with over 700 web pages on the site expediency trumped the code issue.
PIAUSA serves as an example of how open source can be a very poor value. It is based on EZ Publish, an atrocious piece of bloated crap. We paid for commercial use and I have to say that it never delivered on the claims. When we are finished with InventorEd we will also be converting PIAUSA to Drupal.
I have nothing against open source except for the fact that much of it is worth exactly what people pay and the entitlement mentality of those in the community who think that they should be able to pilfer others intellectual property to use as a loss leader to generate consulting fees.
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.
"If you choose to be a Troll/Shill Please at least do so with some respect for our intelligence,"
What intelligence?
How about you sign what you write or are you too ashamed to sign your name and if by some remote chance you have any relevant affiliations you disclose them:)
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.
Yes, I am serious. Mike Masnick, how would you react if people started posting with our name or one of your company names? Do we have some common ground on this issue?
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 point of the patent system is to encourage others to invent their own solution in order to avoid having to pay another inventor. This works very well.
If you remove patent protection and enforcement all inventions will be pilfered and America will not be able to sustain our standard of living.
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 have every reason to believe General Patent is a reputable company. Posting using their name is sleazy, even by TechDIRT standards. It is one thing to be nasty and quite another to make false posts in someone's name.
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 not a fan of IV because I think that their dealings with inventors leave much to be desired.
But I must disagree with claims that their enforcing their patent rights is wrong, because they are perfectly justified in defending their patent property rights.
There are good reasons to conduct enforcement actions from a unique entity for each case. They are the same reasons that people create corporations for any business, in that it compartmentalizes liability.
Kodak is also perfectly justified in enforcing their patent rights.
Every reader of TechDIRT derives income from some source. Some are wage slaves and others may be in their own business. In every case you expect some sort of compensation for what you do. Inventors also must have compensation in order to support their business of inventing.
The only difference between the invention business and others is the amount of risk and a much larger payout when one succeeds. In the end, every business regardless of the time frames and risk factors must payoff or it will fail.
Big companies also take risks, like intentionally infringing smaller entities patents hoping that those entities will not be able to afford to hold them accountable. Those who take this risk deserve what they are getting.
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 must be using eyeglasses made from the bottoms of recycled old style eight ounce Coke bottles when looking at patent issues because that is the only way you could have such a distorted view.
Most certainly Microsoft was built based on the kind of innovation which you rant about all the time where they took others' inventions. DR dos comes to mind as one notable example of this. And it is true that Microsoft waved their magic wand and produced a bunch of minor incremental inventions which is typical of companies which are unable to produce significant inventions.
It is also true that Microsoft has been wounded by numerous small companies who had important technology and that they have repeatedly been caught with their sticky fingers in others patent cookie jars.
Microsoft reminds me a a young punk with an entitlement mentality who has repeatedly received attitude adjustments. They are slowly growing up, maturing a bit at a time. They went from trying to take whatever they wanted to at least making an effort at producing the inventions they need. Since Microsoft is not capable of producing the most important inventions the next step is for Microsoft to start buying rights before use. There is hope that they are slowly, granted very slowly learning that they must start acting like responsible corporate citizens.
In the meantime they will continue to start scraps and get the crap kicked out of them as will every other thief of patents property rights big and small :)
By the way, I have an interesting political tidbit for you to chew on. I hear that Microsoft's relationship with the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness is strained and that they may withdraw from the Piracy & Fairness Coalition. I also hear that Apple's work to weaken patents is about to bite then really bad because they have probably weakened their own patent rights while trying to facilitate their appropriation of others rights. Think about this and consider the implication for America's competitiveness. Be sure to remove those glasses first and bear in mind that reality altering drugs should not be used when attempting to get an analytical picture of things.
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: Tool Maker Loses Lawsuit For Not Violating Another Company's Patents
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hairbrained Argument
Mike does not produce new wealth like an inventor does.
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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Re: Re: Re: Re: Hairbrained Argument
A number of big businesses who infringed my patents thought the same, and while they we busy being overconfident I ate their lunch :)
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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Seat belt patents
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: Tool Maker Loses Lawsuit For Not Violating Another Company's Patents
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hairbrained Argument
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: Tool Maker Loses Lawsuit For Not Violating Another Company's Patents
Personal Responsibility
Such responsibility applies equally to users and makers of products. I think it is incredibly bad business to maim and kill one's customers.
I have a wood shop with all the typical tools. It is a fact that all of us make mistakes, especially Mike when he starts talking about patents.
This case is a perfect example of the trials inventors go through. They produce great inventions and try to license them. Companies refuse their advances and the inventor may start a company as happened in this case.
Something happens in the market which makes the invention desirable to all the players, in this case product liability.
Now all the players will need to either invent an alternative or pay the inventor. Many of the companies will probably try to steal the invention.
In virtually all cases larger companies have economies of scale which small companies cannot achieve. So while the infringer is making money without any of the development costs and driving the product's price down greatly lowering the inventor's profit they are also faced with legal costs.
This puts an inventor such as SawStop into a crisis situation, loss of everything or having to spend five or more years litigating to protect their rights.
Far too may inventors are destroyed at this stage of the game and their loss pales compared to the loss which society suffers in terms of jobs and prosperity.
This is why I founded the Professional inventors Alliance twenty years ago. For every inventor who has the skills and luck to survive there are probably a hundred or more who do not. This is not so much about the fate of each inventor as it is about loss of subsequent inventions and the impact that has on our whole economy.
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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Telecom-Cable Industries Especially Brutal
The only reason that IV has been able to buy so many patents is that big companies leave those patents on the market. So there is some poetic justice in someone acquiring those patents and then kicking the tar out of the infringers.
Inventions are property and it is long past time that big companies have to respect those rights. If companies had been buying up rights IV would not have a business and once the dust settles IV will no longer be able to buy patents dirt cheap.
This is the essence of capitalism.
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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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hairbrained Argument
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: Tool Maker Loses Lawsuit For Not Violating Another Company's Patents
Never Proves Anything / Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nathan
"Who Needs Facts?" Huh? Why'd you change your name? Besides, I thought last time we heard from you you said you were never reading this site again. That was after I proved, conclusively, that you were the one who repeatedly got your facts wrong, and all I asked for was a simple easy apology."
And that is as far as I read because you frequently fail to prove anything and most certaintly you did not do so this time.
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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Re:
Everything has flaws but some solutions are always better than others.
Law may not be perfect but it is better than the alternatives.
And most lawyers are trying to the right thing. Most certainly the law profession has a higher ethical standard than what we see 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.
On the post: Tool Maker Loses Lawsuit For Not Violating Another Company's Patents
Re: Re: Re: Hairbrained Argument
The product is engineered to make you buy an expensive replacement unit (kind of like Apple garbage). That creates a huge opportunity to invent a better mechanism whose life is longer. The fact that it is not retrofittable is another huge market.
If you can invent a better solution which does not infringe then you will strike it rich. If you cannot then that says that this invention is pretty important and worth paying the price.
This is the way the system works and it does work very well. The patent system is a major reason for America being a world economic leader.
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: Tool Maker Loses Lawsuit For Not Violating Another Company's Patents
Re: Re: Hairbrained Argument
This is true in other parts of the world but not in the US. Most certainty some corporations try to abridge the First Amendment in a multitude of ways and there are some judges who overstep their authority but in both cases they do get slapped down.
As to lying, actions speak louder than words and unfortunately Mike's anti inventor, or at least anti inventor profiting from their inventions stand is very clear. Irrational but clear.
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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Hairbrained Argument
The government is not mandating use of this invention, the court simply said that a company which allows a user to be injured is liable.
This situation is where the patent system shines, in that other saw makers now have a reason to try and produce an alternative invention. I have a friend who has one of these saws and have looked at it. Without even trying I can see ways to improve this.
This is not an area which I am interested in working because I believe that my time is best spent protecting America's inventors from parasitic interests like transnational companies and hordes of their stooges but it is a great opportunity for someone.
You say "Old saws can't be retrofitted". I can see ways to retrofit, can you? Maybe you should invent another way to stop the blade, that is if you can, and then spend lots of time and money to create an alternative and then give it away? That would warm my heart.
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: Kodak Says Intellectual Ventures Behind Patent Lawsuit Filed By Shell Company
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: IP
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: Kodak Says Intellectual Ventures Behind Patent Lawsuit Filed By Shell Company
Re: Re: (RJR)
PIAUSA serves as an example of how open source can be a very poor value. It is based on EZ Publish, an atrocious piece of bloated crap. We paid for commercial use and I have to say that it never delivered on the claims. When we are finished with InventorEd we will also be converting PIAUSA to Drupal.
I have nothing against open source except for the fact that much of it is worth exactly what people pay and the entitlement mentality of those in the community who think that they should be able to pilfer others intellectual property to use as a loss leader to generate consulting fees.
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: Kodak Says Intellectual Ventures Behind Patent Lawsuit Filed By Shell Company
Re: Re: (RJR)
What intelligence?
How about you sign what you write or are you too ashamed to sign your name and if by some remote chance you have any relevant affiliations you disclose them:)
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: Kodak Says Intellectual Ventures Behind Patent Lawsuit Filed By Shell Company
Re: Re: Re: IP
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: Kodak Says Intellectual Ventures Behind Patent Lawsuit Filed By Shell Company
It is sustainable
If you remove patent protection and enforcement all inventions will be pilfered and America will not be able to sustain our standard of living.
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: Kodak Says Intellectual Ventures Behind Patent Lawsuit Filed By Shell Company
Re: IP
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: Kodak Says Intellectual Ventures Behind Patent Lawsuit Filed By Shell Company
But I must disagree with claims that their enforcing their patent rights is wrong, because they are perfectly justified in defending their patent property rights.
There are good reasons to conduct enforcement actions from a unique entity for each case. They are the same reasons that people create corporations for any business, in that it compartmentalizes liability.
Kodak is also perfectly justified in enforcing their patent rights.
Every reader of TechDIRT derives income from some source. Some are wage slaves and others may be in their own business. In every case you expect some sort of compensation for what you do. Inventors also must have compensation in order to support their business of inventing.
The only difference between the invention business and others is the amount of risk and a much larger payout when one succeeds. In the end, every business regardless of the time frames and risk factors must payoff or it will fail.
Big companies also take risks, like intentionally infringing smaller entities patents hoping that those entities will not be able to afford to hold them accountable. Those who take this risk deserve what they are getting.
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 Loses Yet Another Patent Lawsuit
Corporate Adolescents
You must be using eyeglasses made from the bottoms of recycled old style eight ounce Coke bottles when looking at patent issues because that is the only way you could have such a distorted view.
Most certainly Microsoft was built based on the kind of innovation which you rant about all the time where they took others' inventions. DR dos comes to mind as one notable example of this. And it is true that Microsoft waved their magic wand and produced a bunch of minor incremental inventions which is typical of companies which are unable to produce significant inventions.
It is also true that Microsoft has been wounded by numerous small companies who had important technology and that they have repeatedly been caught with their sticky fingers in others patent cookie jars.
Microsoft reminds me a a young punk with an entitlement mentality who has repeatedly received attitude adjustments. They are slowly growing up, maturing a bit at a time. They went from trying to take whatever they wanted to at least making an effort at producing the inventions they need. Since Microsoft is not capable of producing the most important inventions the next step is for Microsoft to start buying rights before use. There is hope that they are slowly, granted very slowly learning that they must start acting like responsible corporate citizens.
In the meantime they will continue to start scraps and get the crap kicked out of them as will every other thief of patents property rights big and small :)
By the way, I have an interesting political tidbit for you to chew on. I hear that Microsoft's relationship with the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness is strained and that they may withdraw from the Piracy & Fairness Coalition. I also hear that Apple's work to weaken patents is about to bite then really bad because they have probably weakened their own patent rights while trying to facilitate their appropriation of others rights. Think about this and consider the implication for America's competitiveness. Be sure to remove those glasses first and bear in mind that reality altering drugs should not be used when attempting to get an analytical picture of things.
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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