Have you considered what we had before? Would you prefer trial by combat or a sovereign deciding?
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.
"With real property, even if there are ownership disputes, they don't get as ridiculously complicated as this. They don't go on for years with multiple people all believing they own the property only to find out later they might not. They don't involve people just declaring they own a piece of property with no one realizing they might not. These are all arguments over "imaginary" property, which isn't property at all. At what point do people realize just how ridiculous this whole structure is?"
Tangible property such as real estate does get just as complicated which is why we buy title insurance and do physical surveys. There is little difference between ownership of intangible property and tangible property. Both can have clouded titles or mistakes in the meets and bounds descriptions and one can buy insurance to cover the costs of dealing with these types of problems.
Rather you like it or not intangible property rights are becoming more important and you will have to learn to deal with it or maybe join the Amish.
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 happened to the Sony which used to produce quality products and supply good service? Today they produce pretty junk, have crappy service.
It seems that all companies sooner or later fall from grace.
Look at IBM, a ghost of their former self.
HP which started as an inventor of significant things who morphed to be better at Dell's business model then Dell.
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.
There was a huge effort required to get all that free stuff, the end result being that it was not free.
The same is true for inventions, in that the inventor invests staggering effort to produce the invention and to teach the invention with a patent. That effort is not free. Granted there are plenty of people who think that things should be free, leaches on society, but nothing is really free.
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.
And I argue the opposite, that you should sign what you write and be big enough to stand behind what you have to say. If you did this you might have some credibility.
I may disagree with Mike Masnick but he is at least willing to stand behind what he has to say, while you are not. It seems to me that small mindedness is far too common 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.
The fix to that problem is to greatly lower population and then the pandemic risk goes way down.
Conversely, if there is no reward for finding a cure then why in the hell would I or any other inventor dump our life, soul and financial resources into addressing the cure if all we are going to get is kicked around?
Remember that nature will relentlessly continue to develop new ways to kill people so if those producing the inventions are not fairly rewarded then they will not have the will or resources to do their work.
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.
So don't buy Apple products. I don't because they are crippled by design.
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.
"more like people with so much dont want to give any to anyone cause they think they have some right to wealth at the expense of others."
Those of us who have the gumption to work hard and build wealth deserve the fruits of our labor.
It is time that you develop some self respect and earn your way.
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.
An ever greater number of people means increasing scarcity of the things which matter. While there seems to no limit to the amount of uninformed drivel on Internet as evidenced by TechDIRT babble about patents and FREE it is a fact that useable water is increasing scarce and that cleaning up what is available is increasingly expensive. The same is true of air which is loaded with pollutants and must be filtered.
Increasing population means that pathogens have more opportunity to mutate and more rapid spread. It is only a matter of time before we have a pandemic and at this time it is prudent to sterilize air in HVAC system with UV C, thereby killing airborne viral, bacterial and fungi. So eliminating increasingly more pathogens and more virulent pathogens is now a new cost of being able to breath.
One of the interesting things is that when Mike Masnick talks about abundance it is usually in the context of copying others intellectual property. When someone makes something which belongs to others "abundant" they are thieves. All the rationalizations in the world will not change this.
One thing which is not abundant for inventors is time to develop and perfect their inventions. This can take years and in some cases a lifetime.and during that time the inventor needs to have income just like Mike Masnick needs income from giving big companies "insight" which keeps those companies happy enough to pay his freight.
So how is it that Mike Masnick deserves to make a living based on as much as the market will bear from his "insight" but inventors should should not make a living from their "insight" because people like Mike Masnick believe that the value inventor's "insight" should immediately drop to the marginal cost of reproduction?
The patent system grants inventors a limited time of exclusive use in exchange for the inventor fully disclosing their "insight" to the public while Mike Masnick keeps his "insight" scarce and doles it out a bit at a time for hard cash.
Tell me, which of the party's "insight" has the most value to society? Who is most deserving of compensation, those who keep "insight" scarce or those who share their "insight" broadly in a way which allows others to build ever greater "insight"?
It is also important to recognize that not all "insight" is created equal and that some "insight" is probably more bull than real "insight" :)
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.
"By taking their money? You call that helping them? Heh. They should know better.
You prey on suckers Ronald.
I feed from the royalty trough and real estate investment proceeds.
You feed from poor souls with patents who think you are helping them. It's sad."
Mike, I help inventors with no strings attached if I think their invention is viable. I have spent several million dollars of my own money helping inventors.
You are right that there are many poor souls. They are preyed on by invention promoters in the early stages and then once they do produce something of value big corporate parasites try to feed on them.
You like to call patent enforcement entities trolls. Most certainly they help inventors in order to make big bucks.
But the only reason that they have a business is that other companies try to take all for themselves. It has been in big company's power from day one to stop patent enforcement companies, to eradicate them. All they have to do is acquire rights to inventions before using them.
Until that happens I will continue to help inventors pick the best mercenary for their situation because it is the right thing to do. This is important because not all patent enforcement businesses are created equal but all of them pay inventors more than they would get if they depended on good will and integrity of those companies whose business model is built on stealing from inventors.
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.
Inventors tend to treat inventions as trade secrets if there is not a suitable incentive to get them teach the invention instead of keeping it a secret.
This is what the promise of exclusive use does and it works very well.
For the first twenty years that I was inventing I very effectively hid how they worked. The second twenty years I used the patent system.
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.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Should Tech Dirt be abolished?
"and that's because the work we do with IC clients is rarely about "advertising" or promoting, and usually about helping them get insight."
Mike, you and from what I can tell the organization are so far in left field, blinded by irrational ideology totally divorced from reality that you cannot possibly deliver insight.
"Ronald, you can believe whatever you want, but our editorial content is what we believe, based on FACTS and EVIDENCE."
There is a huge difference between what you believe and the facts and evidence.
"I still can't figure out why you wouldn't take up such an offer."
I have addressed this more than once. The evidence is overwhelming as to the benefits of patents and regardless of what anyone offers you continue to beat the same drum.
"as has been charged in court against you) you make money by preying on naive inventors to give you money."
I have devoted the last twenty years working pro bono to improve inventor's prospects. There is a very long paper trail about this.
Inventors face two major obstacles to success.
Early on there is the issue of invention promotion fraud. Later the problem is big transnational thieves.
The allegations you make here are based on a lawyer using a SLAPP lawsuit as cover to accuse me of being the kind of crook which preys on early stage inventors. If those allegations were made in any other situation that lawyer would be a pauper today.
We run a major anti fraud operation out of InventorEd. It is more than a decade old and we have played a role in bringing a number of the operators to justice. They attack us in a number of ways.
SLAPP threats are common. Attempts to infiltrate our operation have also been made.
So tell me Mike, do you really want to hitch your wagon to anyone associated with that industry? Somehow I doubt that they are capable or willing to have any "Insight" because they are blinded by over $500 million a year in ill gotten gains.
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.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Should Tech Dirt be abolished?
Mike Masnick,
In the referenced three years you consistently ignored everyone's substantive responses so why would anyone think this is going to change now?
Clearly your goal is to eviscerate the patent system. Your objections to Patent Deform legislation is that it is not destructive enough. That is the same goal of the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness.
You deny any contact with the group but cannot credibly deny dealing with corporate members of the group.
Based on your writing about other issues I know that you are not a complete moron and yet every time you write about patents you leave that impression.
You argue that inventors contributions have no value and that those who take them without paying are innovators and you babble about free business models whose purpose is to con people into showering money on someone. Free is always a loss leader. Nothing is free, someone always foots the bill. What irritates inventors and causes so much disrespect for Mike is that making our work product free is a loss leader for others' to profit at our expense.
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 warms my heart to see TechDIRT lemmings whining and is a sign that I am doing something right:)
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 legitimate criticism of government which has been very slow to reign in Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP). We need broad anti-SLAPP legislation which allows a quick and low cost way to get a summary judgment and there should be significant fines and damages associated with a finding that a lawsuit is a SLAPP.
Lawyers who bring SLAPP lawsuits should be subject to sanctions including fines and suspension of privileges to practice.
This is one area where Mike Masnick and I actually agree on something. There are others but after addressing all the drivel about patents I have little time left.
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 have also seen the same MO used to try and con inventors out of similarly large amounts of money. The TV scam and invention promotion fraud are both common.
Invention promoters are at best worthless and many are outright cons. They fleece inventors for typically something between ten and fifty thousand dollars. They advertise on TV and Google profits handsomely from running their ads.
See http://www.InventorEd.org/caution/ for a few hundred web pages about questionable invention promoters.
One last point, I am including my sig file to give those who lack the ability to comment on the substance of the something to complain about:)
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 make our money from the Insight Community projects that we do"
And are you insight clients big companies? Are any members of the two Piracy Coalitions?
"and (to a much lesser extent) some ads on the site. But we do not do anything to sell editorial and you know that. Yet you keep claiming otherwise."
You write quite a bit about journalism. You should be aware that the wall between editorial and the business side has been destroyed.
Is there any reason we should believe that you are not influenced by your client's political agenda?
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.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Should Tech Dirt be abolished?
"Ha!! So you can't post a single study that supports your position?"
I could post plenty of studies but it is clear that doing so would serve no purpose. As it is they are available for anyone who cares to look for them. I am assuming that you know how to look because in order to find the drivel you call studies that you had to wade through at least an order of magnitude of stuff which refutes the crap you post.
Of course, it is possible that you did not look for yourself and that the references were passed to you by someone associated with the patent piracy movement. If that is the case you should take a bit of time to become better informed.
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.
They expire in the same way a lease expires. Have you ever heard of 99 year leases where people build a house and have all the property rights of ownership for 99 years? Patents are the same kind of deal, the inventor teaches their invention as opposed to treating as a trade secret and in exchange they get EXCLUSIVE rights for twenty years from date of filing.
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.
Maybe your comments would have more credibility if you did sign them. At this point there is nowhere for your credibility to go but up.
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: When You Try To Figure Out Who Owns Imaginary 'Property,' Things Get Confusing Fast
Re:
Have you considered what we had before? Would you prefer trial by combat or a sovereign deciding?
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: When You Try To Figure Out Who Owns Imaginary 'Property,' Things Get Confusing Fast
Tangible and Intangible Property
Tangible property such as real estate does get just as complicated which is why we buy title insurance and do physical surveys. There is little difference between ownership of intangible property and tangible property. Both can have clouded titles or mistakes in the meets and bounds descriptions and one can buy insurance to cover the costs of dealing with these types of problems.
Rather you like it or not intangible property rights are becoming more important and you will have to learn to deal with it or maybe join the Amish.
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: Screenwriters Claim Sony Copied Their Plot For A Video Game
Sony, Style Without Substance
It seems that all companies sooner or later fall from grace.
Look at IBM, a ghost of their former self.
HP which started as an inventor of significant things who morphed to be better at Dell's business model then Dell.
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: Society Doesn't Know How To Deal With Abundance
Re: Re: Early Societies Dealt with Abundance
The same is true for inventions, in that the inventor invests staggering effort to produce the invention and to teach the invention with a patent. That effort is not free. Granted there are plenty of people who think that things should be free, leaches on society, but nothing is really free.
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: Society Doesn't Know How To Deal With Abundance
Re: Re: Re: Re: I agree to a point...
I may disagree with Mike Masnick but he is at least willing to stand behind what he has to say, while you are not. It seems to me that small mindedness is far too common 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: Society Doesn't Know How To Deal With Abundance
Re: Re: Abundance & Insight
Conversely, if there is no reward for finding a cure then why in the hell would I or any other inventor dump our life, soul and financial resources into addressing the cure if all we are going to get is kicked around?
Remember that nature will relentlessly continue to develop new ways to kill people so if those producing the inventions are not fairly rewarded then they will not have the will or resources to do their work.
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: Society Doesn't Know How To Deal With Abundance
Re: Re: I agree to a point...
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: Society Doesn't Know How To Deal With Abundance
Re: it doesn't
Those of us who have the gumption to work hard and build wealth deserve the fruits of our labor.
It is time that you develop some self respect and earn your way.
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: Society Doesn't Know How To Deal With Abundance
Abundance & Insight
Increasing population means that pathogens have more opportunity to mutate and more rapid spread. It is only a matter of time before we have a pandemic and at this time it is prudent to sterilize air in HVAC system with UV C, thereby killing airborne viral, bacterial and fungi. So eliminating increasingly more pathogens and more virulent pathogens is now a new cost of being able to breath.
One of the interesting things is that when Mike Masnick talks about abundance it is usually in the context of copying others intellectual property. When someone makes something which belongs to others "abundant" they are thieves. All the rationalizations in the world will not change this.
One thing which is not abundant for inventors is time to develop and perfect their inventions. This can take years and in some cases a lifetime.and during that time the inventor needs to have income just like Mike Masnick needs income from giving big companies "insight" which keeps those companies happy enough to pay his freight.
So how is it that Mike Masnick deserves to make a living based on as much as the market will bear from his "insight" but inventors should should not make a living from their "insight" because people like Mike Masnick believe that the value inventor's "insight" should immediately drop to the marginal cost of reproduction?
The patent system grants inventors a limited time of exclusive use in exchange for the inventor fully disclosing their "insight" to the public while Mike Masnick keeps his "insight" scarce and doles it out a bit at a time for hard cash.
Tell me, which of the party's "insight" has the most value to society? Who is most deserving of compensation, those who keep "insight" scarce or those who share their "insight" broadly in a way which allows others to build ever greater "insight"?
It is also important to recognize that not all "insight" is created equal and that some "insight" is probably more bull than real "insight" :)
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 Released: More Of The Same
Re: Re: Re: Should Tech Dirt be abolished?
You prey on suckers Ronald.
I feed from the royalty trough and real estate investment proceeds.
You feed from poor souls with patents who think you are helping them. It's sad."
Mike, I help inventors with no strings attached if I think their invention is viable. I have spent several million dollars of my own money helping inventors.
You are right that there are many poor souls. They are preyed on by invention promoters in the early stages and then once they do produce something of value big corporate parasites try to feed on them.
You like to call patent enforcement entities trolls. Most certainly they help inventors in order to make big bucks.
But the only reason that they have a business is that other companies try to take all for themselves. It has been in big company's power from day one to stop patent enforcement companies, to eradicate them. All they have to do is acquire rights to inventions before using them.
Until that happens I will continue to help inventors pick the best mercenary for their situation because it is the right thing to do. This is important because not all patent enforcement businesses are created equal but all of them pay inventors more than they would get if they depended on good will and integrity of those companies whose business model is built on stealing from inventors.
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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This is what the promise of exclusive use does and it works very well.
For the first twenty years that I was inventing I very effectively hid how they worked. The second twenty years I used the patent system.
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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Mike, you and from what I can tell the organization are so far in left field, blinded by irrational ideology totally divorced from reality that you cannot possibly deliver insight.
"Ronald, you can believe whatever you want, but our editorial content is what we believe, based on FACTS and EVIDENCE."
There is a huge difference between what you believe and the facts and evidence.
"I still can't figure out why you wouldn't take up such an offer."
I have addressed this more than once. The evidence is overwhelming as to the benefits of patents and regardless of what anyone offers you continue to beat the same drum.
"as has been charged in court against you) you make money by preying on naive inventors to give you money."
I have devoted the last twenty years working pro bono to improve inventor's prospects. There is a very long paper trail about this.
Inventors face two major obstacles to success.
Early on there is the issue of invention promotion fraud. Later the problem is big transnational thieves.
The allegations you make here are based on a lawyer using a SLAPP lawsuit as cover to accuse me of being the kind of crook which preys on early stage inventors. If those allegations were made in any other situation that lawyer would be a pauper today.
We run a major anti fraud operation out of InventorEd. It is more than a decade old and we have played a role in bringing a number of the operators to justice. They attack us in a number of ways.
SLAPP threats are common. Attempts to infiltrate our operation have also been made.
So tell me Mike, do you really want to hitch your wagon to anyone associated with that industry? Somehow I doubt that they are capable or willing to have any "Insight" because they are blinded by over $500 million a year in ill gotten gains.
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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In the referenced three years you consistently ignored everyone's substantive responses so why would anyone think this is going to change now?
Clearly your goal is to eviscerate the patent system. Your objections to Patent Deform legislation is that it is not destructive enough. That is the same goal of the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness.
You deny any contact with the group but cannot credibly deny dealing with corporate members of the group.
Based on your writing about other issues I know that you are not a complete moron and yet every time you write about patents you leave that impression.
You argue that inventors contributions have no value and that those who take them without paying are innovators and you babble about free business models whose purpose is to con people into showering money on someone. Free is always a loss leader. Nothing is free, someone always foots the bill. What irritates inventors and causes so much disrespect for Mike is that making our work product free is a loss leader for others' to profit at our expense.
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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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: Vision Media's Attempt To Silence Critic May Be Exposing More Questionable Activities
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Lawyers who bring SLAPP lawsuits should be subject to sanctions including fines and suspension of privileges to practice.
http://www.InventorEd.org/SLAPP/
This is one area where Mike Masnick and I actually agree on something. There are others but after addressing all the drivel about patents I have little time left.
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: Vision Media's Attempt To Silence Critic May Be Exposing More Questionable Activities
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And are you insight clients big companies? Are any members of the two Piracy Coalitions?
"and (to a much lesser extent) some ads on the site. But we do not do anything to sell editorial and you know that. Yet you keep claiming otherwise."
You write quite a bit about journalism. You should be aware that the wall between editorial and the business side has been destroyed.
Is there any reason we should believe that you are not influenced by your client's political agenda?
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 Released: More Of The Same
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I could post plenty of studies but it is clear that doing so would serve no purpose. As it is they are available for anyone who cares to look for them. I am assuming that you know how to look because in order to find the drivel you call studies that you had to wade through at least an order of magnitude of stuff which refutes the crap you post.
Of course, it is possible that you did not look for yourself and that the references were passed to you by someone associated with the patent piracy movement. If that is the case you should take a bit of time to become better informed.
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 Released: More Of The Same
Re: Re: patent Deform Bill
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 Released: More Of The Same
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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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