Perhaps the inventor community should raise funds to purchase tents and other supplies for the homeless along with free transportation for the less fortunate to patent socialists homes. We should do PR and place an organizer on site.
The owner should make their facilities available to the indigent. They should open their pantries for the less fortunate.
This would be a great media opportunity. Lets discuss who the lucky SOB should be and get cracking.
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 is true that one needs money to get justice. For many years, actually many decades disreputable business interests were able to steal average people's inventions with impunity. That started to change in the 1970s.
The reason patent pirating companies whine about patent trolls is that when the scope of their larcenary became big enough capitalism produced a remedy for their conduct in the form of patent enforcement entities.
This changed the nature of the fight and inventors are winning those fights today.
There still is no justice if the infringement is below about ten million dollars and between ten and a hundred million dollars it is case specific. Over a hundred million in infringement an inventor can usually get a patent enforcement entity to bankroll their case.
Think about how many billions of dollars are being stolen in cases below a hundred million dollars. This theft is usually being committed by transnational corporations. They ship jobs and the prosperity those inventions produce out of the country. The impact on our competitiveness is staggering.
Now returning to the issue of the legal system. It is inherent that deep pockets bias things and there really are not any viable solutions to this. But in the case of patents an average John Doe can take on the biggest companies in the world and extract retribution. We are doing this daily and doing so with considerable success. The system has in this case produced a solution to address the worst cases. It may not be perfect but it has been effective enough to make the most disreputable companies whine like five year old children.
What is interesting is that TechDIRT has business associations with some of the naughtiest companies and coincidentally they mostly push those same companies patent agenda. Chicken or egg, I am trying to figure out what came first :)
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.
Hollywood does steal others intellectual property on a regular basis. I have some personal experience with this.
Meanwhile, Mike Masnick constantly rationalizes that uninventive companies whose claim to fame is marketing and manufacturing might should be able to take inventors work under the guise that combining others inventions into a product is innovation when it is really an example of parasitic activity.
It seems to me that the legal system does a pretty good job of sorting these things out and assessing the merits and that the rest of us cannot do this because we do not have all the facts.
What I do know is that someone is risking at least two million and perhaps tens of millions of dollars because they think that their patent is being infringed. People do not wager that kind of money with being certain that they have a good case. That being the case, if they win the case I will expect Mike to acknowledge that once again he spewed a bunch of nonsense about a patent case.
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.
“from the bad-reporting dept”
It is nice to see we have some common ground here, because most TechDIRT reporting on patent issues is to put it mildly bad.
“The patent was issued in 2003 “ “It's difficult to see how anyone could claim with a straight face willful infringement when you just informed them of your patent”
Patents teach others the best mode of an invention. You acknowledge that the patent issued in 2003. Google is a sophisticated company with ready access to the patent database. The published patent is well known, hence willful infringement.
Some inventors have donated use of their inventions for open source. At one time I favored this approach but I have yet to see the open source community so much as say thank you. In fact, the open source community is much like a spoiled teenager who not only fails to appreciate things which are done for them but demands more.
As a result of this nasty mindset I have for several years been discouraging inventors from contributing in any way to open source because the community seems to be made up of crooked ingrates.
The root of the problem is that open source as an industry is based on a profit motive which is facilitated by a loss leader in the form of “free software” which is anything but free.
Open source is a profit based enterprise and as long as someone is making a profit on an inventor’s patent property rights the inventor is entitled to a royality.
Google is currently in the corporate adolescent stage. Like many young successful companies they have developed very big egos and an attitude that they can take liberties with others intellectual property. They have become a parasite on inventors. It has been reported that they have a scorched earth litigation policy. This may work for some time but it is inevitable that eventually they will be handed their head just as has happened with Microsoft and RIM. They chose to live by the sword and anyone who understands history knows how that will end. It is only a matter of time.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
"Techdirt also says that it is practically impossible to succeed in shutting down the pirates. And it is ill-advised to criminalize your customers."
Since they are not customers and many have no intention of being customers then there is nothing to lose by prosecuting them.
TechDIRT drivel is astounding.
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 drivel "First, there is no "stealing" going on. There may be copying, but that's not stealing."
Patents are a PROPERTY RIGHT which have economic value. When someone take the value away from those who own the rights it is stealing. The only difference between patent property rights and other tangible property is that with patents we only have the right to seek damages while in the latter case their tails would go to jail. Maybe it is time to criminalize theft of 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.
“Apple has been sued over and over and over and over and over and over again for patent infringement.” Mike, how is it that you have all this evidence that Apple covets others inventions, misappropriates others inventions while claiming to be an innovator, and you cannot see that it is Apple which is the problem?
And then there is the drivel “It looks like the old adage is true again: if you can't innovate, litigate!”. The whole point is it is Nokia who did inventing and even more important taught their invention with a patent. In exchange for teaching they were granted the exclusive right to use THEIR invention for the term of the patent.
As far as I can tell Apple’s innovation is limited to mostly self serving propaganda rationalizing why they should be able to profit from others’ patent properties.
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 a very good post. The essence of effective systems is check and balance and in this case neither is in place. Absolute power does corrupt absolutely and it was inevitable that this kind of power with virtually no versight would cause problems.
Incidentally, a similar situation existed in the courts from around 1920 to about the sixties. Big companies could pick their own forum for patent disputes and during that time the courts did not uphold any small entity patents. Needless to say that a rather nasty corporate culture of entitlement developed around this situation.
Patent pirating companies whine about the Eastern Texas court because that court does not allow the kinds of abusive litigation tactics which those companies had come to view as their inalienable 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.
Didn’t you know that East Texas is rapidly becoming the hottest area of the country for innovative start up companies? Inventors are flocking there for comradely, culture reasonable real estate prices and country living.
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley has become dominated by Piracy Coalition members who have strangled the area’s inventive spirit. It is not the place for start up companies. The decline will be long and painful.
Eolas is a perfect example of what inventors do for society. It is a shame that they have to sue all these big companies. It doesn’t have to be this way, those companies could change their ways and start licensing rather than trying to steal.
Perhaps both you and Joe Mullin can explain why the two of you constantly root for those who are stealing billions of dollars from America’s inventors. Mullin’s work looks suspiciously like that of Rick Frenkel which raises the question of rather or not Rick Frenkel continues to work in this area.
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.
Didn’t you know that East Texas is rapidly becoming the hottest area of the country for innovative start up companies? Inventors are flocking there for comradely, culture reasonable real estate prices and country living.
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley has become dominated by Piracy Coalition members who have strangled the area’s inventive spirit. It is not the place for start up companies. The decline will be long and painful.
Eolas is a perfect example of what inventors do for society. It is a shame that they have to sue all these big companies. It doesn’t have to be this way, those companies could change their ways and start licensing rather than trying to steal.
Perhaps both you and Joe Mullin can explain why the two of you constantly root for those who are stealing billions of dollars from America’s inventors. Mullin’s work looks suspiciously like that of Rick Frenkel which raises the question of rather or not Rick Frenkel continues to work in this area.
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.
1) No letter to the FCC but I do think it is long past time for Google and other like minded companies to get a bit of anti-trust scrutiny. I agree that AT&T is far worse than Google but it seems to me that Google needs to be reminded that there are boundaries.
2) I am an inventor and yes inventors to work together on some issue. We do obey the law. The law is that we get a right to exclusive use in exchange for teaching our invention via the patent process. The problem is that big companies steal our patent property rights. Our recourse is sue for recovery of your property. We exercise those rights as provided by law.
3) ADD, dyslexia, Asperger and numerous other conditions are very common in the inventor community. It seems that they may well play a factor in driving the left handed approach which drives people to produce inventions. We are all born with strengths and weaknesses, the key is to learn to use the strengths to prevail. Your job as a parent is to help your child achieve their maximum potential regardless of the hand they are dealt. Work constantly to teach your child how to cope, you will probably be pleasantly surprised by the outcome.
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.
1) No letter to the FCC but I do think it is long past time for Google and other like minded companies to get a bit of anti-trust scrutiny. I agree that AT&T is far worse than Google but it seems to me that Google needs to be reminded that there are boundaries.
2) I am an inventor and yes inventors to work together on some issue. We do obey the law. The law is that we get a right to exclusive use in exchange for teaching our invention via the patent process. The problem is that big companies steal our patent property rights. Our recourse is sue for recovery of your property. We exercise those rights as provided by law.
3) ADD, dyslexia, Asperger and numerous other conditions are very common in the inventor community. It seems that they may well play a factor in driving the left handed approach which drives people to produce inventions. We are all born with strengths and weaknesses, the key is to learn to use the strengths to prevail. Your job as a parent is to help your child achieve their maximum potential regardless of the hand they are dealt. Work constantly to teach your child how to cope, you will probably be pleasantly surprised by the outcome.
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.
Why don't you tell us something about yourself? What is your job function? What is your title? What have you accomplished which is notable?
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 that you study the Carterphone decision and the history following it.
Information about Google's fall from grace is easy to find with a search engine. There has been quite a bit of news coverage about this.
One good example is that Google is hosting ads for companies who have been busted for invention promotion fraud. Is it ethical for any advertiser to profit in this way? Legal yes, ethical - I don't think so. After all, they do represent themselves as not having to do evil to make money so if that is the case should we expect them to avoid doing evil where it is possible. It seems to me that refusing to take money from companies and their successors who have been the subject of enforcement actions is in order.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
I have little use for Microsoft. I think that they are a very efficient predator.
I also think that Google is walking the same path.
Maybe Google started with good intentions, I don't know. But I do believe that it is best to evaluate people and companies based on their actions and Google's actions seem to be taking quite a toll on the public's perception of the company.
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.
"Whoever has got the most money to give, I guess."
Not always. Inventors have over the last fifteen years spent a small fraction of the money which the Coalition for Patent Fairness (better known as the Piracy Coalition)and the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform (the HARMonization crowd) spend and year year after year we have managed to toss one monkey wrench after another into their plans.
My point is that lobbyists cannot project bring the kind of conviction which those of us who have actually walked the invention path bring to our presentations. These groups outspend inventors by about a thousand fold yet they keep losing.
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's "don't be evil" which is a statement of "intent"
Do people or companies always say what their true intentions are? There are psychopaths who present themselves very well while being incapable of grasping ethics and morality. In fact, quite a large percentage of humanity falls into this category, perhaps 20-30%.
Much of humanity's social and cultural evolution has been about creating rules, law and enforcement of penalties to set boundaries for these kinds of people.
It is unfortunate that many of the worst players go into positions of authority, and like the scum on bodies of water rise to the top.
The larger and older the organization they more likely they are to be able to rationalize doing things to others which most people would find horrific in a one on one situation.
Most certainly the telecom industry has a long history of less than ethical conduct. But it is amazing how fast success breeds arrogance and a sense of being invincible in young 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.
Over the last year Google's conduct has been catching up with them.
Many wildly successful companies have suffered from the corporate adolescent stage as is Google. Corporations have to mature just like individuals. It usually takes a few hard knocks to deflate their egos.
Google is today making the same mistakes with inventors which other companies have made. One example is Microsoft.
Today Google has an entitlement mentality, and they have such a high opinion of their invincibility that they act like they think they can take whatever invention they like. Currently they have a scorched earth , crush anyone who dares object to their property being taken policy. Microsoft had a similar policy, and they have been paying dearly for it. Google will also pay dearly, and eventually they will evolve, if not from ethics then because of fear into a company which acquires rights before using others inventions.
I have yet to see a company who takes liberties with inventors patent property rights who does not suffer from a multitude of other problems in the way they conduct business.
Those companies have a big problem because the inventor community does work collectively to help media and the public understand the full scope of how such companies conduct themselves.
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 agree that the price of textbooks have become unreasonable. I am pretty sure that colleges and / or professors are being compensated to bleed students.
We have also seen quite a number of academics promote Patent Deform while feeding at the trough of patent pirating companies. Some institutions have done truly horrific things to students and faculty in order to defraud them of their constitutional patent property rights. There is more than a bit of corruption in academia but still far less than corporate circles. Perhaps the FTC could add these kinds of relationships to the disclosure provisions they are proposing for bloggers?
It seems like far too many people on TechDIRT spend a great deal of effort bashing me for disclosing my affiliations while most of them are to chicken **** to sign their name to what they have to say. It seems to me that their time could be better spent addressing the substance of my comments rather than the sig file.
This is one area where Mike Masnick deserves credit, in that he is willing to be associated with what he says. If he didn't have his head stuck where there is little daylight on patent issues I could devote more time to agreeing with him on a number of issues.
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.
Hey, I think that they both do evil and that both are arrogant.
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: Defense Of Software Patents Actually Raises Questions About All Computer Patents
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The owner should make their facilities available to the indigent. They should open their pantries for the less fortunate.
This would be a great media opportunity. Lets discuss who the lucky SOB should be and get cracking.
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: Science Fiction Movie Accused Of Patent Infringement
Re: Re: Hollywood has been nailed repeatedly.
The reason patent pirating companies whine about patent trolls is that when the scope of their larcenary became big enough capitalism produced a remedy for their conduct in the form of patent enforcement entities.
This changed the nature of the fight and inventors are winning those fights today.
There still is no justice if the infringement is below about ten million dollars and between ten and a hundred million dollars it is case specific. Over a hundred million in infringement an inventor can usually get a patent enforcement entity to bankroll their case.
Think about how many billions of dollars are being stolen in cases below a hundred million dollars. This theft is usually being committed by transnational corporations. They ship jobs and the prosperity those inventions produce out of the country. The impact on our competitiveness is staggering.
Now returning to the issue of the legal system. It is inherent that deep pockets bias things and there really are not any viable solutions to this. But in the case of patents an average John Doe can take on the biggest companies in the world and extract retribution. We are doing this daily and doing so with considerable success. The system has in this case produced a solution to address the worst cases. It may not be perfect but it has been effective enough to make the most disreputable companies whine like five year old children.
What is interesting is that TechDIRT has business associations with some of the naughtiest companies and coincidentally they mostly push those same companies patent agenda. Chicken or egg, I am trying to figure out what came first :)
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: Science Fiction Movie Accused Of Patent Infringement
Hollywood has been nailed repeatedly.
Meanwhile, Mike Masnick constantly rationalizes that uninventive companies whose claim to fame is marketing and manufacturing might should be able to take inventors work under the guise that combining others inventions into a product is innovation when it is really an example of parasitic activity.
It seems to me that the legal system does a pretty good job of sorting these things out and assessing the merits and that the rest of us cannot do this because we do not have all the facts.
What I do know is that someone is risking at least two million and perhaps tens of millions of dollars because they think that their patent is being infringed. People do not wager that kind of money with being certain that they have a good case. That being the case, if they win the case I will expect Mike to acknowledge that once again he spewed a bunch of nonsense about a patent case.
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: Google Sued Over Patents On Open Source Code
Yep, TechDIRT is the "bad-reporting dept"
It is nice to see we have some common ground here, because most TechDIRT reporting on patent issues is to put it mildly bad.
“The patent was issued in 2003 “ “It's difficult to see how anyone could claim with a straight face willful infringement when you just informed them of your patent”
Patents teach others the best mode of an invention. You acknowledge that the patent issued in 2003. Google is a sophisticated company with ready access to the patent database. The published patent is well known, hence willful infringement.
Some inventors have donated use of their inventions for open source. At one time I favored this approach but I have yet to see the open source community so much as say thank you. In fact, the open source community is much like a spoiled teenager who not only fails to appreciate things which are done for them but demands more.
As a result of this nasty mindset I have for several years been discouraging inventors from contributing in any way to open source because the community seems to be made up of crooked ingrates.
The root of the problem is that open source as an industry is based on a profit motive which is facilitated by a loss leader in the form of “free software” which is anything but free.
Open source is a profit based enterprise and as long as someone is making a profit on an inventor’s patent property rights the inventor is entitled to a royality.
Google is currently in the corporate adolescent stage. Like many young successful companies they have developed very big egos and an attitude that they can take liberties with others intellectual property. They have become a parasite on inventors. It has been reported that they have a scorched earth litigation policy. This may work for some time but it is inevitable that eventually they will be handed their head just as has happened with Microsoft and RIM. They chose to live by the sword and anyone who understands history knows how that will end. It is only a matter of time.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
On the post: How Patents Are Harming Small Companies Too
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: how about them apples?
Since they are not customers and many have no intention of being customers then there is nothing to lose by prosecuting them.
TechDIRT drivel is astounding.
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: Can't Innovate? Litigate! 3Com Goes Patent Lawsuit Ballistic
It is theft on a grand scale, as in BILLIONS $$$$
Patents are a PROPERTY RIGHT which have economic value. When someone take the value away from those who own the rights it is stealing. The only difference between patent property rights and other tangible property is that with patents we only have the right to seek damages while in the latter case their tails would go to jail. Maybe it is time to criminalize theft of 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: Nokia Getting Killed In The Smartphone Market... So Of Course It Sues For Patent Infringement
Apple's innovation limited to PR hype.
And then there is the drivel “It looks like the old adage is true again: if you can't innovate, litigate!”. The whole point is it is Nokia who did inventing and even more important taught their invention with a patent. In exchange for teaching they were granted the exclusive right to use THEIR invention for the term of the patent.
As far as I can tell Apple’s innovation is limited to mostly self serving propaganda rationalizing why they should be able to profit from others’ patent properties.
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: Judge Keeps Gag Order In Place On ISP Boss Over Feds Demand For Info On Customer
In complete agreement.
Incidentally, a similar situation existed in the courts from around 1920 to about the sixties. Big companies could pick their own forum for patent disputes and during that time the courts did not uphold any small entity patents. Needless to say that a rather nasty corporate culture of entitlement developed around this situation.
Patent pirating companies whine about the Eastern Texas court because that court does not allow the kinds of abusive litigation tactics which those companies had come to view as their inalienable 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.
On the post: Eolas' Convenient Move To Texas
Eastern TX New Silicon Valley
Didn’t you know that East Texas is rapidly becoming the hottest area of the country for innovative start up companies? Inventors are flocking there for comradely, culture reasonable real estate prices and country living.
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley has become dominated by Piracy Coalition members who have strangled the area’s inventive spirit. It is not the place for start up companies. The decline will be long and painful.
Eolas is a perfect example of what inventors do for society. It is a shame that they have to sue all these big companies. It doesn’t have to be this way, those companies could change their ways and start licensing rather than trying to steal.
Perhaps both you and Joe Mullin can explain why the two of you constantly root for those who are stealing billions of dollars from America’s inventors. Mullin’s work looks suspiciously like that of Rick Frenkel which raises the question of rather or not Rick Frenkel continues to work in this area.
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: If You're An East Texas Company, Are You Now More Prone To Patent Infringement Lawsuits?
East TX New Silicon Valley
Didn’t you know that East Texas is rapidly becoming the hottest area of the country for innovative start up companies? Inventors are flocking there for comradely, culture reasonable real estate prices and country living.
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley has become dominated by Piracy Coalition members who have strangled the area’s inventive spirit. It is not the place for start up companies. The decline will be long and painful.
Eolas is a perfect example of what inventors do for society. It is a shame that they have to sue all these big companies. It doesn’t have to be this way, those companies could change their ways and start licensing rather than trying to steal.
Perhaps both you and Joe Mullin can explain why the two of you constantly root for those who are stealing billions of dollars from America’s inventors. Mullin’s work looks suspiciously like that of Rick Frenkel which raises the question of rather or not Rick Frenkel continues to work in this area.
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: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
Strive for the best outcome.
2) I am an inventor and yes inventors to work together on some issue. We do obey the law. The law is that we get a right to exclusive use in exchange for teaching our invention via the patent process. The problem is that big companies steal our patent property rights. Our recourse is sue for recovery of your property. We exercise those rights as provided by law.
3) ADD, dyslexia, Asperger and numerous other conditions are very common in the inventor community. It seems that they may well play a factor in driving the left handed approach which drives people to produce inventions. We are all born with strengths and weaknesses, the key is to learn to use the strengths to prevail. Your job as a parent is to help your child achieve their maximum potential regardless of the hand they are dealt. Work constantly to teach your child how to cope, you will probably be pleasantly surprised by the outcome.
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: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
2) I am an inventor and yes inventors to work together on some issue. We do obey the law. The law is that we get a right to exclusive use in exchange for teaching our invention via the patent process. The problem is that big companies steal our patent property rights. Our recourse is sue for recovery of your property. We exercise those rights as provided by law.
3) ADD, dyslexia, Asperger and numerous other conditions are very common in the inventor community. It seems that they may well play a factor in driving the left handed approach which drives people to produce inventions. We are all born with strengths and weaknesses, the key is to learn to use the strengths to prevail. Your job as a parent is to help your child achieve their maximum potential regardless of the hand they are dealt. Work constantly to teach your child how to cope, you will probably be pleasantly surprised by the outcome.
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: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
Re: Re: Re: Re: Google & AT&T Cut From Same Cloth
Why don't you tell us something about yourself? What is your job function? What is your title? What have you accomplished which is notable?
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: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
Re: Re: Re: Re: Google & AT&T Cut From Same Cloth
Information about Google's fall from grace is easy to find with a search engine. There has been quite a bit of news coverage about this.
One good example is that Google is hosting ads for companies who have been busted for invention promotion fraud. Is it ethical for any advertiser to profit in this way? Legal yes, ethical - I don't think so. After all, they do represent themselves as not having to do evil to make money so if that is the case should we expect them to avoid doing evil where it is possible. It seems to me that refusing to take money from companies and their successors who have been the subject of enforcement actions is in order.
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: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
Re: Re: Google & Evil / Re:
I also think that Google is walking the same path.
Maybe Google started with good intentions, I don't know. But I do believe that it is best to evaluate people and companies based on their actions and Google's actions seem to be taking quite a toll on the public's perception of the company.
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: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
Re: Re: Should be interesting
Not always. Inventors have over the last fifteen years spent a small fraction of the money which the Coalition for Patent Fairness (better known as the Piracy Coalition)and the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform (the HARMonization crowd) spend and year year after year we have managed to toss one monkey wrench after another into their plans.
My point is that lobbyists cannot project bring the kind of conviction which those of us who have actually walked the invention path bring to our presentations. These groups outspend inventors by about a thousand fold yet they keep losing.
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: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
Re: Re: Google & AT&T Cut From Same Cloth
Do people or companies always say what their true intentions are? There are psychopaths who present themselves very well while being incapable of grasping ethics and morality. In fact, quite a large percentage of humanity falls into this category, perhaps 20-30%.
Much of humanity's social and cultural evolution has been about creating rules, law and enforcement of penalties to set boundaries for these kinds of people.
It is unfortunate that many of the worst players go into positions of authority, and like the scum on bodies of water rise to the top.
The larger and older the organization they more likely they are to be able to rationalize doing things to others which most people would find horrific in a one on one situation.
Most certainly the telecom industry has a long history of less than ethical conduct. But it is amazing how fast success breeds arrogance and a sense of being invincible in young 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.
On the post: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
Google & Evil / Re:
Many wildly successful companies have suffered from the corporate adolescent stage as is Google. Corporations have to mature just like individuals. It usually takes a few hard knocks to deflate their egos.
Google is today making the same mistakes with inventors which other companies have made. One example is Microsoft.
Today Google has an entitlement mentality, and they have such a high opinion of their invincibility that they act like they think they can take whatever invention they like. Currently they have a scorched earth , crush anyone who dares object to their property being taken policy. Microsoft had a similar policy, and they have been paying dearly for it. Google will also pay dearly, and eventually they will evolve, if not from ethics then because of fear into a company which acquires rights before using others inventions.
I have yet to see a company who takes liberties with inventors patent property rights who does not suffer from a multitude of other problems in the way they conduct business.
Those companies have a big problem because the inventor community does work collectively to help media and the public understand the full scope of how such companies conduct themselves.
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: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
Textbooks / Re: Re: Re:
We have also seen quite a number of academics promote Patent Deform while feeding at the trough of patent pirating companies. Some institutions have done truly horrific things to students and faculty in order to defraud them of their constitutional patent property rights. There is more than a bit of corruption in academia but still far less than corporate circles. Perhaps the FTC could add these kinds of relationships to the disclosure provisions they are proposing for bloggers?
It seems like far too many people on TechDIRT spend a great deal of effort bashing me for disclosing my affiliations while most of them are to chicken **** to sign their name to what they have to say. It seems to me that their time could be better spent addressing the substance of my comments rather than the sig file.
This is one area where Mike Masnick deserves credit, in that he is willing to be associated with what he says. If he didn't have his head stuck where there is little daylight on patent issues I could devote more time to agreeing with him on a number of issues.
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: Congressional Reps Rewrite AT&T's Google Voice Complaint, And Send It To The FCC
Google & AT&T Cut From Same Cloth
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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