"It would be simply stupid to risk major legal costs (and more importantly the interruption of your ability to deliver product or service) when you could buy out the inventor reasonably easily. You do not get to be a company the size of Microsoft or Google by being that stupid."
If you understood the history of this then you might understand had the we can steal whatever we want corporate culture came to be.
From the 1920 through the 1960 time frame large corporate crooks owned the courts and not one patent was upheld for small entities. They loved venue then. Decades of being able to take what they wanted with total impunity led to a very nasty culture developing in large companies.
Today these companies can steal up to $10 million at a time without being held accountable because of the cost of having one's day in court. From ten to a hundred million they have a fairly good chance of getting away and it is only over a hundred million that they are certain to have their day in court.
At this point companies are stealing billions of dollars every year and only occasionally facing a $500 million dollar judgment. This kind of crime does pay.
This matters to you because they are undermining every developed country's economy resulting in more job loss and less job creation.
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.
My response was to remove the links to PayPal as a donation option and to switch to alternatives.
Not only did PayPal freeze accounts making demands for much more private information, they made it very difficult to get any other information.
I have kept one PayPal account open but only use it as a last resort and most of the time I purchase from alternative suppliers rather than use PayPal.
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.
"Ha! I ask Ronald for evidence and he provides none and instead insinuates, falsely, that I am a paid shill for large companies."
All I am doing is trying to figure out why you take a stand on patents which is totally at odds with the facts.
We do not have a situation here where you are missing small nuances of reality, rather we have gross misrepresentation. I ask why?
Perhaps you have compartmentalized intellectual property issues to an area of your mind where logic is tossed out? Maybe you were brainwashed at some point?
I am waiting for a rational explanation.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
How about you disclose who you are and what your affiliations are so that I and other readers can place your comments in context? After all, Mike Masnick has set a good example by disclosing his connections to a number of companies associated with the Coalition for Patent Fairness & Piracy.
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 clearly are not stupid, I base that assessment on the fact that you grasp other issues just fine. So how can we explain your incredibly ignorant stand on patents and inventors? Are you blind in just this case or is there another reason for your consistently ignoring massive evidence of the impact patent property rights have in motivating inventors?
Tell me Mike, do you toil away on behalf of your clients for the fun of it, expecting no compensation? Why would you expect inventors to do so?
As far as I can, tell the clients we see on TechDIRT are part of the Coalition for Patent Fairness and Piracy. I take that seriously :)
I also appreciate the fact that TechDIRT has served to bring many inventors to us. Your positions on patents are so outrageous and ignorant that you draw inventors, you insult inventors and they appreciate my toying with you.
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.
No it doesn't, individual creators are to fragile to contest anything and will depend in larger bodies that become larger and stop caring about the little guy, with the obvious consequence that is better to sell those rights to someone else who then exploits and gain all the protections and with time only a few players remain in the field creating a de facto monopoly."
Patents do benefit the inventor and that is why big companies are crying about patent trolls. They stole our property for a long time with impunity. We developed very effective counter tactics. Today they are having to pay up, at least some of the time when the dollar value of their theft rises to the level that it is economical to sue their ass.
Now they whine about vicious patent trolls who are really aggrieved patent property right holders. They push Patent Deform. TechDIRT spouts the same kind of nonsense as the Piracy Coalition. This is a strange set of coincidences.
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.
"because no body would own the knowledge." No one owns the knowledge now and in fact to varying degrees patent increase knowledge. What inventors own is the right to exclude others from practicing the invention. There is an important distinction in that anyone can use the disclosed knowledge to invent another way, perhaps a better way of doing what the invention teaches.
people's distaste for having to pay others to use their invention is supposed to motivate them to further advance progress. If they succeed they can charge for the better solution which they produced and if they fail they have to pay or not use the invention.
What we see on TechDIRT are a bunch aspiring parasites, dullards who are apparently incapable of creative thought or understanding that those who invent have complied with the contract offered to get us to teach and we take a very dim view of those who steal our patent property rights.
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.
NO, an inventor created new markets or business opportunities which would not have been possible without their work and they taught their invention with a patent.
First come the inventor and then come the parasitic patent pirates.
At least in America patents are a property right and when someone steals or tries to steal our property we can and do kick the crap out of them.
Big companies do file hordes of minor incremental improvement patents but those can almost always be worked around because they are significant inventions.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
If a researcher is granted a patent in an area after spending time and money to get there, it is unlikely that they are just going to put something on the shelf and ignore it. That would be like spending millions to build the world fastest F1 car,and then never taking it to a race......
....I also think that investors and researchers moving to other areas is a good business move.
"These comments prove that you are ignorant of the way that science and technology advances."
Companies who do research and then do not profit from it expire with a whimper.
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.
4) teaching via a patent, something which none of those bellyaching about patents have done.
5) Attempts to market the invention which often lead to someone copying it and then daring the inventor to do something about it. Most companies claiming they invented independently are lairs and they did steal it.
6) Clearly patents have not dissuaded or made people afraid because if that were the case you wouldn't see the courts hammering members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness & Piracy again and again. They steal because on balance they get away with often enough to make it very profitable doing so.
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 really need to quit using the word innovation when talking about copying and those who who want to ride the coattails of inventors. They are not innovators and venture capitalists who try to make a quick buck with little risk by backing those copying others inventions are as much parasites as the people they back.
Most certainly you have the right to root for vultures if that is what you want but give us all a break and stop claiming that they are innovators or that the studies they buy are anything more than propaganda.
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 mister american dont tellme your patent , copyright crap aint going to affect the people of canada."
There are many small Canadian companies which profit handsomely using American patents. Patents are a great equalizer when small companies are based on a significant invention and some big company wants to squeeze them out.
Among Canadian companies the poster child of a serial infringer is RIM but if RIM got what they wanted in changes to American patent law a staggering number of Canadian companies would be screwed royally.
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 is a huge difference between being a tech guy and actually inventing the tech.
I would love to see how Mike would react to someone coming in and swiping his assets. I bet he would be just as militant as inventors have been forced to become.
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.
Amazon needs to offer to act as a publishers for ebooks, complete with doing the PR and offering print on demand. This would force the industry to change.
They will need to offer authors a higher commission but can do so and turn a tidy profit by cutting out the other middlemen.
Now all I need is a way to get a piece of the action.
The beauty of this is that they can then charge Apple a higher price just like Apple has been doing to their customers since the Apple III (Lisa), a really crappy product with a propriety floppy drive. I dumped Apple at that point. I have allowed fellow inventors to talk me into trying the Airport, the AirBook, and an iPhone and I found all of them unacceptable because Apple cripples their products 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.
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 patent litigation is about is one entity stealing another company's profit. All that happened here is that the court found that Boston Scientific had to give that profit to J&J. The end cost to the consumer was the same.
Now think about the economic drain on America's economy when the patent pirating entity is outside the US. That means lost jobs and prosperity. One example of this is the Rambus saga.
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: What about all those awsome new products from J&J
Or how about KY, a product with more uses than anyone imagined. Some years ago I started attaching personal sized tubes of KY to settlement offers for patent pirates. It was really quite funny and after spending years being worked over by a patent pirate I was entitled to a bit of fun at their expense as a prelude to taking a wad of their cash.
I mentioned this to a fairly high level person at J&J and he excitedly said that was one of their products. We then had an interesting discussion about market segments which are not anticipated. I am sure that this is a growing market segment today and I hear that the Coalition for Patent Fairness and Piracy have banded together to fund a Chinese plant to pirate personal lube formulas for their own use. They must be shipping it into the US in container loads the way things are going.
In any event, J&J does produce many innovative products and even more important they learned that dealing reputably with inventors is good business.
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.
"Apple isn't making 50% profits", but they are gouging their customers in a multitude of other ways. What amazes me is how people line up and hand Apple wads of cash to get products which Apple has 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.
Mike is right when he says "but getting many industry execs to think logically and examine data isn't particularly easy." and I agree that the music industry is not handling changes in their industry very well but it is a fact that when it comes to patents that Mike has the same problems. Mike's reasoning on patents kinds of reminds me of the unintelligent design folks.
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.
Just how long do you think richer companies can be milked before the goose that lays the golden eggs croak?
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.
No one makes the drugs scarce. Now if they are not developed they will be scarce and if companies cannot profit they sure as hell will not invest in drug development.
Drugs are priced to cover all costs of development, distribution and a profit. So the issue is cost and they cost what they do because of the staggering capital investment to create 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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Re: Re: Patentees Make Staggering Investments
If you understood the history of this then you might understand had the we can steal whatever we want corporate culture came to be.
From the 1920 through the 1960 time frame large corporate crooks owned the courts and not one patent was upheld for small entities. They loved venue then. Decades of being able to take what they wanted with total impunity led to a very nasty culture developing in large companies.
Today these companies can steal up to $10 million at a time without being held accountable because of the cost of having one's day in court. From ten to a hundred million they have a fairly good chance of getting away and it is only over a hundred million that they are certain to have their day in court.
At this point companies are stealing billions of dollars every year and only occasionally facing a $500 million dollar judgment. This kind of crime does pay.
This matters to you because they are undermining every developed country's economy resulting in more job loss and less job creation.
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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Paypal needs to be regulated the same as banks.
My response was to remove the links to PayPal as a donation option and to switch to alternatives.
Not only did PayPal freeze accounts making demands for much more private information, they made it very difficult to get any other information.
I have kept one PayPal account open but only use it as a last resort and most of the time I purchase from alternative suppliers rather than use PayPal.
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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
I am waiting for a rational explanation.
All I am doing is trying to figure out why you take a stand on patents which is totally at odds with the facts.
We do not have a situation here where you are missing small nuances of reality, rather we have gross misrepresentation. I ask why?
Perhaps you have compartmentalized intellectual property issues to an area of your mind where logic is tossed out? Maybe you were brainwashed at some point?
I am waiting for a rational explanation.
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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Re: Re: Not Innovators
How about you disclose who you are and what your affiliations are so that I and other readers can place your comments in context? After all, Mike Masnick has set a good example by disclosing his connections to a number of companies associated with the Coalition for Patent Fairness & Piracy.
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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Fringe studies funded by who?
You clearly are not stupid, I base that assessment on the fact that you grasp other issues just fine. So how can we explain your incredibly ignorant stand on patents and inventors? Are you blind in just this case or is there another reason for your consistently ignoring massive evidence of the impact patent property rights have in motivating inventors?
Tell me Mike, do you toil away on behalf of your clients for the fun of it, expecting no compensation? Why would you expect inventors to do so?
As far as I can, tell the clients we see on TechDIRT are part of the Coalition for Patent Fairness and Piracy. I take that seriously :)
I also appreciate the fact that TechDIRT has served to bring many inventors to us. Your positions on patents are so outrageous and ignorant that you draw inventors, you insult inventors and they appreciate my toying with you.
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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Re: Patents.
No it doesn't, individual creators are to fragile to contest anything and will depend in larger bodies that become larger and stop caring about the little guy, with the obvious consequence that is better to sell those rights to someone else who then exploits and gain all the protections and with time only a few players remain in the field creating a de facto monopoly."
Patents do benefit the inventor and that is why big companies are crying about patent trolls. They stole our property for a long time with impunity. We developed very effective counter tactics. Today they are having to pay up, at least some of the time when the dollar value of their theft rises to the level that it is economical to sue their ass.
Now they whine about vicious patent trolls who are really aggrieved patent property right holders. They push Patent Deform. TechDIRT spouts the same kind of nonsense as the Piracy Coalition. This is a strange set of coincidences.
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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Re: Open Initiatives and Jobs.
people's distaste for having to pay others to use their invention is supposed to motivate them to further advance progress. If they succeed they can charge for the better solution which they produced and if they fail they have to pay or not use the invention.
What we see on TechDIRT are a bunch aspiring parasites, dullards who are apparently incapable of creative thought or understanding that those who invent have complied with the contract offered to get us to teach and we take a very dim view of those who steal our patent property rights.
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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Re: Patents.
Created new costs on the market."
NO, an inventor created new markets or business opportunities which would not have been possible without their work and they taught their invention with a patent.
First come the inventor and then come the parasitic patent pirates.
At least in America patents are a property right and when someone steals or tries to steal our property we can and do kick the crap out of them.
Big companies do file hordes of minor incremental improvement patents but those can almost always be worked around because they are significant inventions.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
On the post: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Richard is the one who is IGRORANT
If a researcher is granted a patent in an area after spending time and money to get there, it is unlikely that they are just going to put something on the shelf and ignore it. That would be like spending millions to build the world fastest F1 car,and then never taking it to a race......
....I also think that investors and researchers moving to other areas is a good business move.
"These comments prove that you are ignorant of the way that science and technology advances."
Companies who do research and then do not profit from it expire with a whimper.
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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Patentees Make Staggering Investments
2) Research to determine if it is something new.
3) Reduction to practice.
4) teaching via a patent, something which none of those bellyaching about patents have done.
5) Attempts to market the invention which often lead to someone copying it and then daring the inventor to do something about it. Most companies claiming they invented independently are lairs and they did steal it.
6) Clearly patents have not dissuaded or made people afraid because if that were the case you wouldn't see the courts hammering members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness & Piracy again and again. They steal because on balance they get away with often enough to make it very profitable doing so.
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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Not Innovators
You really need to quit using the word innovation when talking about copying and those who who want to ride the coattails of inventors. They are not innovators and venture capitalists who try to make a quick buck with little risk by backing those copying others inventions are as much parasites as the people they back.
Most certainly you have the right to root for vultures if that is what you want but give us all a break and stop claiming that they are innovators or that the studies they buy are anything more than propaganda.
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: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Re: ALSO
There are many small Canadian companies which profit handsomely using American patents. Patents are a great equalizer when small companies are based on a significant invention and some big company wants to squeeze them out.
Among Canadian companies the poster child of a serial infringer is RIM but if RIM got what they wanted in changes to American patent law a staggering number of Canadian companies would be screwed royally.
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: Pharma Patent Nuclear War In Action
Difference
I would love to see how Mike would react to someone coming in and swiping his assets. I bet he would be just as militant as inventors have been forced to become.
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: Book Publishing Industry Just Now Realizing That Change Is Turbulent?
The solution
They will need to offer authors a higher commission but can do so and turn a tidy profit by cutting out the other middlemen.
Now all I need is a way to get a piece of the action.
The beauty of this is that they can then charge Apple a higher price just like Apple has been doing to their customers since the Apple III (Lisa), a really crappy product with a propriety floppy drive. I dumped Apple at that point. I have allowed fellow inventors to talk me into trying the Airport, the AirBook, and an iPhone and I found all of them unacceptable because Apple cripples their products 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.
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: Pharma Patent Nuclear War In Action
The price did not go up.
Now think about the economic drain on America's economy when the patent pirating entity is outside the US. That means lost jobs and prosperity. One example of this is the Rambus saga.
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: Pharma Patent Nuclear War In Action
Re: What about all those awsome new products from J&J
I mentioned this to a fairly high level person at J&J and he excitedly said that was one of their products. We then had an interesting discussion about market segments which are not anticipated. I am sure that this is a growing market segment today and I hear that the Coalition for Patent Fairness and Piracy have banded together to fund a Chinese plant to pirate personal lube formulas for their own use. They must be shipping it into the US in container loads the way things are going.
In any event, J&J does produce many innovative products and even more important they learned that dealing reputably with inventors is good business.
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: Econ 101: Study Shows That If Record Labels Lowered Prices On Music, They Would Sell A Lot More
"Apple isn't making 50% profits"
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: Econ 101: Study Shows That If Record Labels Lowered Prices On Music, They Would Sell A Lot More
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: Israel Making Generic Patents As Big An Int'l Trade Issue As Corruption And Bribery?
Re: Cheaper drugs could be good if used correctly
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: Israel Making Generic Patents As Big An Int'l Trade Issue As Corruption And Bribery?
Re: Re: Re:
Drugs are priced to cover all costs of development, distribution and a profit. So the issue is cost and they cost what they do because of the staggering capital investment to create 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.
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