You are missing an important issue, Israeli inventors and a significant emerging tech industry based on their inventions. Patents are very important to Israel and they cannot expect others to respect their IP rights if the allow Teva to steal with impunity.
There is nothing wrong with generic companies growing through sales of low margin high volume off patent drugs. I would hope that Teva is using income from gererics to develop their own drugs. That is the only business plan which makes sense.
One last point, www.PIAUSA.org works with many Israeli inventors and it is a fact that Jewish inventors in America are common. For whatever reasons the Jewish culture produces inventors disproportionately greater then one would expect for their numbers.
We even have a discussion group for Jewish inventors on PIAUSA.org, BWP-L.
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 suggest effigy burning demonstrations in his home district. We have inventors from his district who are already considering this and they might be willing to join forces with others.
It is long past time that the people reign in questionable legislators. This is an issue which transcends party affiliations.
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.
Is for drivers to write letters to the editor about how they have stopped patronizing businesses in the jurisdiction. You might also call a restaurant in the area, schedule a group and then cancel it later because of the unethical conduct. If enough things like this are done, if businesses think they are losing business over it they will raise holy hell.
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 would go a step further in that I think the government should make this available electronically with friendly fill in the blank software and I am willing to bet that tax compliance would improve by leaps and bounds.
Also, many transnational companies are using underhanded tactics to avoid paying their taxes. Much of this is done through use of their subsidiaries outside the US. The IRS should be doing more to stop this.
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.
Short Term Mangers / was TechDIRT Ignorance or Design??
We are working to get employed inventors a portion of the value of inventions they produce. In part this is because we believe that they deserve such but part of it is based on the fact that people will be more inclined to disclose inventions and put the extra work in which is necessary to if they will see something in return. I am personally a big believer in performance incentives which are based on long term goals. I think that much of the problems with management of big companies is that the managers are being lavishly rewarded for short term gain which often comes at the expense of the long term prospects of the company. The managers rape the company treasury, move on to their next rape job and leave the employees with a empty husk of a company.
Anyone can improve short term profits with a slash and burn management style. Just look at the financial dis-service industry and our political leadership.
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.
Public Citizen Litigation Group has been doing great work like this for as long as I can remember. It is important to remember that the financial meltdown has severely impacted all nonprofits.
Those which are higher profile are getting the bulk of what little cash is available and really good organizations like Public Citizen who are not constantly pestering people are not getting their fair share.
For years I have intentionally focused on contributing to lessor known organizations based in my belief that the high profile ones already have plenty of donors.
I also always make donations direct to organizations rather than doing so when someone calls. The reason is that those calling are usually telemarketer fund raising companies who take a huge chunk of what you give for themselves.
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.
"Except when they don't like most likely those patents will be retrofitted with minor changes and re-issued ad infinitum."
When a patent expires it may be used. If there are other improvements invented then just the new improvement gets patent protection. The expired patent is prior art and can be used by anyone the same as traditional remedies are prior art and can be used by anyone. As far as I can tell ALL claims of Bio-Piracy are bald faced attempts to force others to pay for public domain material.
It is a fact that most of the people starving are doing so because they consistently reproduce to excess. It is one thing when a group suffers a natural disaster but otherwise live with the bounds of their resources to support them and another when they doom their self and their children to a continuous cycle of poverty.
They would be in this condition regardless of rather an invention is produced and they have no innate right to take others property rather it is inventions or food itself.
In twenty years they will have a right to use inventions which are produced today with no strings attached just as scientists today have a right to study and improve upon traditional remedies.
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.
"Sell a man the seeds. Make it illegal for him to grow his own." copies of the patented seed. He is perfectly free to grow a multitude of varieties of naturally occurring seeds.
Most farmers are honest hard working people but all groups have people looking for easy money. Farmers want to use engineered seeds because their yield is much higher.
Incidentally, some of the patents are expiring and those engineered seeds will then be public domain. The patent system does work as intended.
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.
Even air is not free. Human actives pollute the air and stopping the pollution or filtering out pollutants costs money.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
"Excuse me? How do weaker IP laws help corporations 'socialise all invention'?" Weaker IP allows those who are not inventive but who have capital and marketing machines to capture the market and leave the actual inventors with nothing.
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.
IP will not die and you are a fool if you think it will. Big business will just change it under the guise of Patent Reform to keep all the little people from using it. While it is difficult it does serve the interests of upstart start up companies.
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 THIS is what the "intent" of patent law was created for? REALLY?"
This was not the intent it is simply how big companies have been able to warp the system.
From the 1920 through the 1960 time frame not one patent was upheld for an independent inventor. Today many those patents are upheld and that is something big companies hate. This is why they are spending over 200 million a year trying to pass patent Deform and why they whine just like a school yard bully who picks the wrong fight and gets their tail kicked about mythical trolls.
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 NO NO, Paul Heckel played by the rules. Many big companies flat out stole from him in the same way that the banking industry has stole from every man, woman and child in the US.
The problem is that we have laws for the masses but allow big business to trample everyone in their quest for unjust profits.
The patent system is one of the few ways that a person can successfully take these bad corporate players to task. Paul did win a moderate amount of money and Paul invested a staggering amount of time in community service as have I.
Patents and copyright are very different animals. The difference in work product is very different, in that inventors greatly improve everyone's life. Inventors cannot afford to invent if they cannot receive compensation.
In the end it is a fact that big companies are using propaganda to get people to give them a blank check to steal. If they get it new job creation will come to a standstill, overall progress will slow down, and those big transnational companies will be able to profit with little risk of disruptive technology making them adapt.
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: Patent System makes Knowledge Available To All
"You cannot speak on your own behalf and then list a paragraph of your shilling organizations (and a corpse)."
Yes I can. Unlike you, I sign my name to what I have to say and I disclose my affiliations. But I do not have the time or inclination to get approval for every opinion which I might want to express from the leaders of each organization. This is why there is a disclaimer. That is the honest way for me to operate.
There is an industry of paid bloggers. Are you on the payroll of a large corporation? If not, why do you publish anonymously?
One last point, the corpse comment is especially crass. Paul Heckel was an inventor who died before his time because large companies ripped him off. It was tragic and should not have happened. His death and the decade of poverty he faced before passing while large companies made millions prevented him from being able to produce subsequent inventions. Corporate abuse of inventors is costing America dearly in lost jobs and prosperity.
In the end I have to wonder that if people are stupid enough to buy corporate propaganda and immoral enough to rationalize why they should be able to profit on others work if they don't deserve to live under the heals of these disreputable companies. What do you think?
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 lazy then the guy that wants to get paid for ethernity for having had a thought first then the others?"
There is much more to producing an invention than a "thought". Beyond producing the invention and reduction to practice is the cost and time involved in teaching that invention through a patent. In exchange for this inventors are given the exclusive right to control the invention for a limited time of twenty years from date of filing the patent.
It is not unusual for five or more years of the twenty to be used up by delays in the patent office. After grant of the patent it can easily take another 5-10 years to commercialize the invention and far too often big companies rip off the invention and the inventor is instead faced with having to litigate to get their due.
As long as one company is getting away with infringement others generally will follow suit and even if they don't infringe they usually will not invest in the invention. This situation leaves inventors with NO CHOICE but to sue one or more of the infringing companies.
Plenty of inventors would like to produce products but are precluded from doing so by the actions of large thieving companies. In many cases the inventor had already been working on product development but are forced to divert their resources, laying off their staff to defend their property rights by actions of patent pirates.
No inventor likes litigation. We would much rather put our time into producing more inventions and products.
When you talk about patent trolls you are really pushing the big crooked business agenda. Lest say you worked hard for something, amounting to many years of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars and some crook stole it. How would you react to such?
It is probably fair to say that inventors are a product of their environments. They are used and abused by parasitic large corporations who then compound this with a massive smear campaign. Their actions are similar to arguments by rapists that their victim somehow asked for and deserved to be raped.
How many of you would accept that argument? I hope none would be that stupid yet many of you do buy the propaganda spewed by big business interests and their shills on forums like this one.
How many of the anonymous posters on TechDIRT are really paid corporate shills? I think that there are thousands of corporate shills working even more forums for Piracy Coalition members.
This fight is about much more than inventor rights being trampled. There is a war being waged by transnational corporations who are trying to subvert all governments and people for their and only their ends.
It is long past time that the public recognizes that there is a big difference between the way intellectual property rights are used by independents rather they are inventors, authors, musicians or other content producers and how large business use IP. It is stupid for you to alienate us. We are not the enemy.
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.
Development of church, state and law has in large part been driven by the necessity to lay down rules of conduct for those people who lack an innate grasp of ethics and morality.
TechDIRT serves as a testimonial to how common this is. Overall I would guess that 20-30% of people suffer from this problem.
Nothing in life is ever free. Someone has to work to create everything. Those who advocate taking the fruits of others work conduct speaks for itself. They are at best parasites and often much worse.
All forms of publishing are in flux right now and it is my hope that a viable business model emerges which allows content creators to receive fair compensation without the need for middlemen. Time will tell.
Those who do not want to pay for content need to create their own, that is if they can. I suspect most lack the ability and their sole motivation is laziness.
I do not believe that copyrights create new wealth and that as such their term should not be as long as big corporate interests have been able to get. I believe that once each individual buys rights to a work that those rights should be for life and that those rights should be transferable. I firmly support fair use.
What I cannot support is the kind of entitlement mentality I see on TechDIRT. Those of you who think everything should be free need to be spanked.
Most of you do not seem to realize that patents allow someone who does invent to take on even the biggest companies and extract retribution. They are a great equalizer. This is especially true of software patents where the capital outlay is fairly low because most of the value is in the labor as opposed to the huge capital expenditures which are required to enter many other industries.
I am an example in that may grandfather was blue collar, my father a teacher and I bootstrapped myself from nothing to being able to retire at forty. That is the American dream, work hard and become independent. Inventing is not the only way to accomplish this but is a important way both for the inventor and for the public who benefits from the inventions and for jobs and prosperity created by those invention.
There is an orchestrated attempt by transnational corporations to socialize all invention for their and only their profit. It is interesting that TechDIRT promotes in large part their agenda and that TechDIRT also just happens to work with a number of the worst players. Perhaps this is just coincidence and perhaps not and I doubt that we will ever know for sure.
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: Patent System makes Knowledge Available To All
Actually the Eastern District in Texas is one of the better courts for many reasons and that is why large and small companies whose inventions are being infringed flock to that court.
It is serial infringers like those who formed the Coalition for Patent Fairness who are spending massive amounts of money to demonize inventors and courts alike who hold them accountable for their disreputable conduct.
While not quite as bad there is another group calling itself the Coalition for 21st Patent Reform who is working to HARMonize our patent system, which really means to turn it into a kings sport, making sure all the little people stay in their place and dutifully toe the line to maximize their profits.
The Eastern District court stands up to both groups of shysters.
What is ironic is how many people buy these companies propaganda. Piracy Coalition and Patent Deform Coalition members offer incentives to various academics, certain media outlets and journalists and bloggers to lead all of you around by the nose.
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.
Big business loved it when they could get inventions for virtually nothing and student and faculty inventors were easy pickings. Today many institutions have technology transfer offices and while they are not perfect most are conducted with far more ethics then you see in large companies who will steal from anyone they view as vulnerable.
I do think that universities should use an opt in policy for their inventors as opposed to mandatory policies.
Most universities handle all the costs of patenting and marketing an invention and they pay faculty and student inventors 30-50% of the resulting income. That is far better than what those inventors would get from an employer. And most companies try to outright steal from independent, academic and small business inventors. They are capitalists when they are selling their products or services and socialists when they need the fruits of other's creativity.
"It's a scary world when people think that locking up naturally abundant information and knowledge somehow makes sense."
Then you should love the patent system because it is about ensuring that knowledge is preserved and widely disseminated. Today universities are playing a role in disseminating ever larger amounts of information through their tech transfer programs.
The patent database is a treasure trove on how to information which moves into the public domain once the patents expire. It would behoove you to spend more time learning from that vast body of knowledge and less spewing nonsense about patents and 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.
Don't worry, I will suggest to inventors of means that they donate to Plumpy'nut.
There is no reason that those who want to cannot get food to starving children. What is likely is that the organizations making this claim are doing so on behalf of some commercial interest who wants to use this invention for their own profit.
Actually, on that note TechDIRT's connection to members of the Piracy Coalition is telling.
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 drivel Mike, no one is stopping people from getting food. All they are stopping is a specific formulation method.
There is a difference between seeking donations of one sort of another for causes and demanding a donation. This is something which United Way was prone to do and while I make significant donations to other causes I will never give United way a dime because of their strong arm fund raising tactics.
When nonprofits or their agents attack inventors they are ensuring that those inventors will NEVER contribute to those entities. That also applies to the Open Ripoff Source movement.
Look at the Petr Taborsky case and the University of South Florida. They ripped off Taborsky and since that time they have been mostly shunned by inventors of means. I believe that it has cost them many millions of dollars.
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?
It Is A Problem / Re: Not a problem
You are missing an important issue, Israeli inventors and a significant emerging tech industry based on their inventions. Patents are very important to Israel and they cannot expect others to respect their IP rights if the allow Teva to steal with impunity.
There is nothing wrong with generic companies growing through sales of low margin high volume off patent drugs. I would hope that Teva is using income from gererics to develop their own drugs. That is the only business plan which makes sense.
One last point, www.PIAUSA.org works with many Israeli inventors and it is a fact that Jewish inventors in America are common. For whatever reasons the Jewish culture produces inventors disproportionately greater then one would expect for their numbers.
We even have a discussion group for Jewish inventors on PIAUSA.org, BWP-L.
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: Howard Berman Concerned About Internet-Repressive Regimes, Except If They Help His Friends In Hollywood
Berman is a big business stooge.
It is long past time that the people reign in questionable legislators. This is an issue which transcends party affiliations.
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: Baltimore Accused Of Stacking The Deck For Speed Cameras
The answer.
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: Intuit Lobbying The Government To Make It More Difficult To File Your Tax Returns
Mike can make sense.
I would go a step further in that I think the government should make this available electronically with friendly fill in the blank software and I am willing to bet that tax compliance would improve by leaps and bounds.
Also, many transnational companies are using underhanded tactics to avoid paying their taxes. Much of this is done through use of their subsidiaries outside the US. The IRS should be doing more to stop this.
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: Give A Man A Fish... And Make It Illegal To Teach Fishing
Short Term Mangers / was TechDIRT Ignorance or Design??
Anyone can improve short term profits with a slash and burn management style. Just look at the financial dis-service industry and our political leadership.
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: New Attempt To Get Around Section 230 In Apparent Effort To Bury Small Site With Legal Expenses
Public Citizen Is A Nonprofit - Donate
Those which are higher profile are getting the bulk of what little cash is available and really good organizations like Public Citizen who are not constantly pestering people are not getting their fair share.
For years I have intentionally focused on contributing to lessor known organizations based in my belief that the high profile ones already have plenty of donors.
I also always make donations direct to organizations rather than doing so when someone calls. The reason is that those calling are usually telemarketer fund raising companies who take a huge chunk of what you give for themselves.
Please support the Public Citizen Litigation Group with a Donation.
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: Give A Man A Fish... And Make It Illegal To Teach Fishing
Expired Patents
When a patent expires it may be used. If there are other improvements invented then just the new improvement gets patent protection. The expired patent is prior art and can be used by anyone the same as traditional remedies are prior art and can be used by anyone. As far as I can tell ALL claims of Bio-Piracy are bald faced attempts to force others to pay for public domain material.
It is a fact that most of the people starving are doing so because they consistently reproduce to excess. It is one thing when a group suffers a natural disaster but otherwise live with the bounds of their resources to support them and another when they doom their self and their children to a continuous cycle of poverty.
They would be in this condition regardless of rather an invention is produced and they have no innate right to take others property rather it is inventions or food itself.
In twenty years they will have a right to use inventions which are produced today with no strings attached just as scientists today have a right to study and improve upon traditional remedies.
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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Most farmers are honest hard working people but all groups have people looking for easy money. Farmers want to use engineered seeds because their yield is much higher.
Incidentally, some of the patents are expiring and those engineered seeds will then be public domain. The patent system does work as intended.
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: TechDIRT Ignorance or 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.
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Re: Re: TechDIRT Ignorance or 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.
On the post: Give A Man A Fish... And Make It Illegal To Teach Fishing
Re: Reason why IP must die.
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: NOT Precisely
This was not the intent it is simply how big companies have been able to warp the system.
From the 1920 through the 1960 time frame not one patent was upheld for an independent inventor. Today many those patents are upheld and that is something big companies hate. This is why they are spending over 200 million a year trying to pass patent Deform and why they whine just like a school yard bully who picks the wrong fight and gets their tail kicked about mythical trolls.
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: NOT Precisely
The problem is that we have laws for the masses but allow big business to trample everyone in their quest for unjust profits.
The patent system is one of the few ways that a person can successfully take these bad corporate players to task. Paul did win a moderate amount of money and Paul invested a staggering amount of time in community service as have I.
Patents and copyright are very different animals. The difference in work product is very different, in that inventors greatly improve everyone's life. Inventors cannot afford to invent if they cannot receive compensation.
In the end it is a fact that big companies are using propaganda to get people to give them a blank check to steal. If they get it new job creation will come to a standstill, overall progress will slow down, and those big transnational companies will be able to profit with little risk of disruptive technology making them adapt.
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: Patent System makes Knowledge Available To All
Yes I can. Unlike you, I sign my name to what I have to say and I disclose my affiliations. But I do not have the time or inclination to get approval for every opinion which I might want to express from the leaders of each organization. This is why there is a disclaimer. That is the honest way for me to operate.
There is an industry of paid bloggers. Are you on the payroll of a large corporation? If not, why do you publish anonymously?
One last point, the corpse comment is especially crass. Paul Heckel was an inventor who died before his time because large companies ripped him off. It was tragic and should not have happened. His death and the decade of poverty he faced before passing while large companies made millions prevented him from being able to produce subsequent inventions. Corporate abuse of inventors is costing America dearly in lost jobs and prosperity.
In the end I have to wonder that if people are stupid enough to buy corporate propaganda and immoral enough to rationalize why they should be able to profit on others work if they don't deserve to live under the heals of these disreputable companies. What do you think?
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: Give A Man A Fish... And Make It Illegal To Teach Fishing
Re: Re: TechDIRT Ignorance or Design??
There is much more to producing an invention than a "thought". Beyond producing the invention and reduction to practice is the cost and time involved in teaching that invention through a patent. In exchange for this inventors are given the exclusive right to control the invention for a limited time of twenty years from date of filing the patent.
It is not unusual for five or more years of the twenty to be used up by delays in the patent office. After grant of the patent it can easily take another 5-10 years to commercialize the invention and far too often big companies rip off the invention and the inventor is instead faced with having to litigate to get their due.
As long as one company is getting away with infringement others generally will follow suit and even if they don't infringe they usually will not invest in the invention. This situation leaves inventors with NO CHOICE but to sue one or more of the infringing companies.
Plenty of inventors would like to produce products but are precluded from doing so by the actions of large thieving companies. In many cases the inventor had already been working on product development but are forced to divert their resources, laying off their staff to defend their property rights by actions of patent pirates.
No inventor likes litigation. We would much rather put our time into producing more inventions and products.
When you talk about patent trolls you are really pushing the big crooked business agenda. Lest say you worked hard for something, amounting to many years of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars and some crook stole it. How would you react to such?
It is probably fair to say that inventors are a product of their environments. They are used and abused by parasitic large corporations who then compound this with a massive smear campaign. Their actions are similar to arguments by rapists that their victim somehow asked for and deserved to be raped.
How many of you would accept that argument? I hope none would be that stupid yet many of you do buy the propaganda spewed by big business interests and their shills on forums like this one.
How many of the anonymous posters on TechDIRT are really paid corporate shills? I think that there are thousands of corporate shills working even more forums for Piracy Coalition members.
This fight is about much more than inventor rights being trampled. There is a war being waged by transnational corporations who are trying to subvert all governments and people for their and only their ends.
It is long past time that the public recognizes that there is a big difference between the way intellectual property rights are used by independents rather they are inventors, authors, musicians or other content producers and how large business use IP. It is stupid for you to alienate us. We are not the enemy.
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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TechDIRT Ignorance or Design??
TechDIRT serves as a testimonial to how common this is. Overall I would guess that 20-30% of people suffer from this problem.
Nothing in life is ever free. Someone has to work to create everything. Those who advocate taking the fruits of others work conduct speaks for itself. They are at best parasites and often much worse.
All forms of publishing are in flux right now and it is my hope that a viable business model emerges which allows content creators to receive fair compensation without the need for middlemen. Time will tell.
Those who do not want to pay for content need to create their own, that is if they can. I suspect most lack the ability and their sole motivation is laziness.
I do not believe that copyrights create new wealth and that as such their term should not be as long as big corporate interests have been able to get. I believe that once each individual buys rights to a work that those rights should be for life and that those rights should be transferable. I firmly support fair use.
What I cannot support is the kind of entitlement mentality I see on TechDIRT. Those of you who think everything should be free need to be spanked.
Most of you do not seem to realize that patents allow someone who does invent to take on even the biggest companies and extract retribution. They are a great equalizer. This is especially true of software patents where the capital outlay is fairly low because most of the value is in the labor as opposed to the huge capital expenditures which are required to enter many other industries.
I am an example in that may grandfather was blue collar, my father a teacher and I bootstrapped myself from nothing to being able to retire at forty. That is the American dream, work hard and become independent. Inventing is not the only way to accomplish this but is a important way both for the inventor and for the public who benefits from the inventions and for jobs and prosperity created by those invention.
There is an orchestrated attempt by transnational corporations to socialize all invention for their and only their profit. It is interesting that TechDIRT promotes in large part their agenda and that TechDIRT also just happens to work with a number of the worst players. Perhaps this is just coincidence and perhaps not and I doubt that we will ever know for sure.
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: Patent System makes Knowledge Available To All
It is serial infringers like those who formed the Coalition for Patent Fairness who are spending massive amounts of money to demonize inventors and courts alike who hold them accountable for their disreputable conduct.
While not quite as bad there is another group calling itself the Coalition for 21st Patent Reform who is working to HARMonize our patent system, which really means to turn it into a kings sport, making sure all the little people stay in their place and dutifully toe the line to maximize their profits.
The Eastern District court stands up to both groups of shysters.
What is ironic is how many people buy these companies propaganda. Piracy Coalition and Patent Deform Coalition members offer incentives to various academics, certain media outlets and journalists and bloggers to lead all of you around by the nose.
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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Patent System makes Knowledge Available To All
I do think that universities should use an opt in policy for their inventors as opposed to mandatory policies.
Most universities handle all the costs of patenting and marketing an invention and they pay faculty and student inventors 30-50% of the resulting income. That is far better than what those inventors would get from an employer. And most companies try to outright steal from independent, academic and small business inventors. They are capitalists when they are selling their products or services and socialists when they need the fruits of other's creativity.
"It's a scary world when people think that locking up naturally abundant information and knowledge somehow makes sense."
Then you should love the patent system because it is about ensuring that knowledge is preserved and widely disseminated. Today universities are playing a role in disseminating ever larger amounts of information through their tech transfer programs.
The patent database is a treasure trove on how to information which moves into the public domain once the patents expire. It would behoove you to spend more time learning from that vast body of knowledge and less spewing nonsense about patents and 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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Re: Plumpy'nut
There is no reason that those who want to cannot get food to starving children. What is likely is that the organizations making this claim are doing so on behalf of some commercial interest who wants to use this invention for their own profit.
Actually, on that note TechDIRT's connection to members of the Piracy Coalition is telling.
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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No one is stopping people from getting food
There is a difference between seeking donations of one sort of another for causes and demanding a donation. This is something which United Way was prone to do and while I make significant donations to other causes I will never give United way a dime because of their strong arm fund raising tactics.
When nonprofits or their agents attack inventors they are ensuring that those inventors will NEVER contribute to those entities. That also applies to the Open Ripoff Source movement.
Look at the Petr Taborsky case and the University of South Florida. They ripped off Taborsky and since that time they have been mostly shunned by inventors of means. I believe that it has cost them many millions of dollars.
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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