Both companies want to micro manage customers, mostly with the goal of milking them on an ongoing basis.
One difference between Sony and Apple is that Sony makes many engineering screw ups, while Apple intentionally engineers crippled products.
Mike Masnick most certainly has his had stuck where the daylight does not shine on patents, invention, and the economics of both but he is right about Sony. Sony is Style Without Substance. They are all about media hype and fail miserably on delivery of both reasonable products and service. Their service is a really bad joke.
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Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
"To patent breast cancer genes and hurt thousands of women? Weird. I never saw that law."
This is a perfect example of the benefits of allowing patents and the consequences of reneging on a social contract.
This test would not exist at all except for the fact that someone invested a very large amount of money to create the test. The consequence is more tests like this will not be forthcoming in the near future. Research dollars will be spent elsewhere.
The specifics of the case are also interesting. You have a women whose genetics predisposes her to an early death from cancer. She could have addressed this with elective surgery but was too vain to do so. She wanted the test but her insurance company refused to pay for it. The real problem was the insurance company.
The company who created the test finally felt sorry for her and gave it to her for free. It saved her life, because she had decided to risk all rather than doing what she knew should be done.
Then she turns around and bites the hand which helped her.
All in all I have to wonder if the world might not have been a better place if nature had run its normal course. It is hard to imagine a less deserving person.
It is my hope, that when the dust settles that these patents are upheld, not just for those who had the foresight to bring us this specific test but also for all the people who will needlessly die because other tests will not be created.
America's single biggest threat to prosperity is this kind of selfish entitlement short term gain oriented mentality which is way to prevalent from top to bottom in our society.
One of the big differences between inventors and much of the public, beyond the fact that we invent and that we teach via a patent, is that we are long term planners who routinely work over a ten year or longer time frame to achieve our goals.
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
"I already debunked this statement."
You statement is an error of fact and debunked nothing. There would be almost no expired drug patents if drug companies actually had the power to do what you say.
Understand that I tend to not much like big business and pharma is definitely big. But I dislike suffering or dieing even more than I dislike pharma.
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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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
Riley said: One reason being that inventions which come now may well be off patent by the time you need them.
Welch said:That doesn't really matter when our current laws allow patent-holders to sue competitors into not competing when the patent runs out, now does it?
Riley said: You are already benefiting...
Welch said: No, I'm not. And I think I'd know better than you what medical inventions I benefit from, eh?
I am in my sixties and take over a dozen meds, only three are still covered by patents and those will be expiring soon. Read the news about pharma industry's patent cliff. Lots more meds patents are expiring, and no they are not being kept alive beyond what law allows.
Everyone benefits from much lower prices after the patents expire.
Do you really think anyone is going to sink billions of dollars into creating and testing new drugs if they cannot recover their investment?
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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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
1) Low bandwidth, we service people in developing countries, the out back, etc where internet is slow and expensive. This means few and low resolution graphics.
2) Handicapped access, many users are older and need high contrast. That means not much use of pastels.
3) At the time we designed the current version of the site the bulk of users were not using browsers which supported CSS. So all page formatting is done with nested tables. Screen readers also played well with screen reader software.
4) Man & Women Power: In have a staggering amount of information online and time is always a problem. We have never had enough volunteers to keep up with everything which would be worth posting.
5) The yellow you don't like is only used in the "Caution Section". It is one of many ways used to convey danger without being so explicit that someone can sue over libel.
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
We could do the same with Lobo Santo except we would need to incorporate a random character generator in order to to simulate Lobo Santo's grasp of reality.
Software engineers usually have little engineering background. Having hired many engineers, both software and hardware I can safely say that the software version just are not as capable as hardware engineers.
Having written and or managed software projects it seems that software people spend their lives copying others work and writing endless amounts of marginally different repetitive code.
I have not figured out if they started out dull or the repetitive nature of their jobs make them this way. I do suspect that the former is the root cause.
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
"It is prior restraint, and it is censorship, plain and simple."
I agree completely. Now the question is what kind of case can be made which punishes the perpetrators? Could a civil RICO case be built which entangles one or more industry players? Is there a basis for damages?
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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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
I will pass this thread on to appropriate organizers. I will earn me a few brownie points. Organized labor has been supporting our efforts to kill Patent Deform.
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Washington, DC
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
Riley said: "Do you really want the incentive to produce medical inventions to be changed to open source?"
Welch said: "Yes. That is the only chance I have at being able to afford whatever advances may come."
It is a poor bet. One reason being that inventions which come now may well be off patent by the time you need them. Another reason is that you are assuming that funds can be found to pay for open source and that inventors can be talked into giving up their their legal rights. A tall order.
Riley said: "Are you confident that it will produce the kinds of advances which will benefit you?"
Welch said: "No. But I am confident that current medical advances do not benefit me, either."
You are already benefiting from expired inventions rights and you will further benefit every rear going ahead.
Riley said: "...the entitlement mindset of the community..."
Welch said: "Pot, this is the kettle. You're black."
Not really, and other inventors accept the contract which is set forth in law. We jump through all the hoops at great cost in time and money. We are entitled by law, pure and simple. What you advocate is not at all likely to do most people any good. To get the kind of continuous inventing needed to stay ahead of and better yet pull further ahead of what nature will do in its quest to kill us is a huge and incredibly expensive undertaking.
You need to look at the numbers for all medical research and then explain how it will be funded using open source. Beyond this, you have to consider how effective a fragmented effort will be.
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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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
"And of course you get your cut out of those orders there don't you?"
What orders? We do not sell anything to inventors. We do not accept any advertising and never have. Over twenty years contributions have not covered more then 10-15% of actual operating costs. I have made up the difference personally.
Any products or service providers you see listed on our sites are only there based on our belief that they benefit inventors.
We do not accept donations from big corporations. Several years ago one offered funding if we would roll over on First to File. The answer was hell no.
Invention promoters have tries to bribe us to endorse them, the answer was hell no.
So they hire people to smear us, they try to bully our service providers into taking down our web sites. They have tried to disrupt our operations in many other ways.
We have been doing what Wikileaks has for over a decade in a narrow niche area, inventing. Employees have leaked information to us. We gather it, look for patterns in it and connections between different players. We gather victims information. We coach them about how to file complaints. In many case I personally call owners of invention promotion companies and demand that they return peoples money, and if they do not do so they end up with quality time.
Inventors who manage to avoid or survive invention promotion fraud and who do have a valuable invention virtually always face similar problems from big companies.
In their case we help avoid common pitfalls such as being suckered into a declaratory judgment action (DJ). We help them find help and business partners and if necessary contingency litigators.
If they have to sue we often speak out about cases because they cannot. Big thieving corporations run smear campaigns while inventors are forced to be silent. And when cases settle they usually have a gag provision which forces inventors, to remain silent.
Because of our work, we face an endless stream of bogus threats to sue. We are subjected to defamation by paid bloggers. They post in our names, often outrageous stuff and then they compile their own comments which have been posted under a slew of aliases into blogs or sites.
All of this is why I am sympathetic to Wikileaks and the people involved with them. It is why I sent a donation to Bradley Manning's defense fund. It was a real pain to track down and verify that I had a legitimate place to do so.
I think that Bradly Manning is sincere, young and naive. I believe that he had no idea of just how nasty power brokers are and I think that if those people can get away with it that he will end up in a dungeon for the rest of his life or worse.
Lots of nasty things happen in the world because people who should stand tall and expose corruption, criminal activity, dirty political activity and what not remain silent. In addition, there seems to be no shortage of people who will sell their soul and stooge for bad players.
This is how the Holocaust and many other bad things happen. People who should no better stand silent.
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Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
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Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
"Why would you invest money into a venture without a patent guaranteeing a return"
It was patent royalties which allowed me to do advocacy work. My interest in advocacy work has been motivated by my underlying teaching mentality and the joy I get from seeing people succeed. It is also motivated by the fact that America cannot prosper by reselling commodity products which are made in developing countries. We must produce new wealth if we expect to maintain our standard of living. Patent protected inventions produce new wealth which cannot be filched by others. No patent protection means that a new invention can be immediately commercialized by transnational corporations in low wage countries.
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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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Let's play set theory
"Have the IRS do a full check of the personal and professional finances of anyone meeting a politician, and of course the politicians themselves."
If you spent much time in the beltway you would understand just how corrosive the environment is.
For example, a woman who was on Leahy's staff husband is a lobbyist of the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness. Obama moved her to his staff. I and many other people I am in contact found that she is a real scum bag. Someone meets with her and she tells stories totally at odds with what actually happens. In Washington the scum truly rises to the top. It happens all the time.
We have a Microsoft stooge and an IBM stooge in top Administration positions.
There are many honest politicians who really are trying to do a good job from both political parties but they are not the ones who end up with the most authority.
Both our government and the Supreme Court are in the pockets of the biggest businesses. This is a very difficult problem to solve. It is downright depressing.
We need to greatly restrict corporation rights. The restrictions should be proportional to their size.
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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
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On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
On the post: Sony Continues To Attack PS3 Jailbreakers: Threatens To Cut Them Off From PlayStation Network
Sony is Like Apple / Re:
One difference between Sony and Apple is that Sony makes many engineering screw ups, while Apple intentionally engineers crippled products.
Mike Masnick most certainly has his had stuck where the daylight does not shine on patents, invention, and the economics of both but he is right about Sony. Sony is Style Without Substance. They are all about media hype and fail miserably on delivery of both reasonable products and service. Their service is a really bad joke.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
This would bring advances to a slow creep.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
This is a perfect example of the benefits of allowing patents and the consequences of reneging on a social contract.
This test would not exist at all except for the fact that someone invested a very large amount of money to create the test. The consequence is more tests like this will not be forthcoming in the near future. Research dollars will be spent elsewhere.
The specifics of the case are also interesting. You have a women whose genetics predisposes her to an early death from cancer. She could have addressed this with elective surgery but was too vain to do so. She wanted the test but her insurance company refused to pay for it. The real problem was the insurance company.
The company who created the test finally felt sorry for her and gave it to her for free. It saved her life, because she had decided to risk all rather than doing what she knew should be done.
Then she turns around and bites the hand which helped her.
All in all I have to wonder if the world might not have been a better place if nature had run its normal course. It is hard to imagine a less deserving person.
It is my hope, that when the dust settles that these patents are upheld, not just for those who had the foresight to bring us this specific test but also for all the people who will needlessly die because other tests will not be created.
America's single biggest threat to prosperity is this kind of selfish entitlement short term gain oriented mentality which is way to prevalent from top to bottom in our society.
One of the big differences between inventors and much of the public, beyond the fact that we invent and that we teach via a patent, is that we are long term planners who routinely work over a ten year or longer time frame to achieve our goals.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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Welch Bunk
It is a fact that this software has a few bugs such as not going to the right message and this example.
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Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
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Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
You statement is an error of fact and debunked nothing. There would be almost no expired drug patents if drug companies actually had the power to do what you say.
Understand that I tend to not much like big business and pharma is definitely big. But I dislike suffering or dieing even more than I dislike pharma.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
Welch said:That doesn't really matter when our current laws allow patent-holders to sue competitors into not competing when the patent runs out, now does it?
Riley said: You are already benefiting...
Welch said: No, I'm not. And I think I'd know better than you what medical inventions I benefit from, eh?
I am in my sixties and take over a dozen meds, only three are still covered by patents and those will be expiring soon. Read the news about pharma industry's patent cliff. Lots more meds patents are expiring, and no they are not being kept alive beyond what law allows.
Everyone benefits from much lower prices after the patents expire.
Do you really think anyone is going to sink billions of dollars into creating and testing new drugs if they cannot recover their investment?
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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Color in Context
1) Low bandwidth, we service people in developing countries, the out back, etc where internet is slow and expensive. This means few and low resolution graphics.
2) Handicapped access, many users are older and need high contrast. That means not much use of pastels.
3) At the time we designed the current version of the site the bulk of users were not using browsers which supported CSS. So all page formatting is done with nested tables. Screen readers also played well with screen reader software.
4) Man & Women Power: In have a staggering amount of information online and time is always a problem. We have never had enough volunteers to keep up with everything which would be worth posting.
5) The yellow you don't like is only used in the "Caution Section". It is one of many ways used to convey danger without being so explicit that someone can sue over libel.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Once Again, Why Homeland Security's Domain Name Seizures Are Almost Certainly Not Legal
Simulate Lobo Santo's grasp of reality / Re: Re:
Software engineers usually have little engineering background. Having hired many engineers, both software and hardware I can safely say that the software version just are not as capable as hardware engineers.
Having written and or managed software projects it seems that software people spend their lives copying others work and writing endless amounts of marginally different repetitive code.
I have not figured out if they started out dull or the repetitive nature of their jobs make them this way. I do suspect that the former is the root cause.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Woman Hits Back At Liberty Media; Asks For Dismissal From P2P Shakedown Saying She Never Downloaded Gay Porn
Marc Randazza does have a good reputation
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Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
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Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Once Again, Why Homeland Security's Domain Name Seizures Are Almost Certainly Not Legal
How to punish?
I agree completely. Now the question is what kind of case can be made which punishes the perpetrators? Could a civil RICO case be built which entangles one or more industry players? Is there a basis for damages?
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
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Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Why Is Google Fighting So Hard To Keep Filing In RosettaStone Lawsuit Secret?
Google is just as dirty as the others.
We see again and again companies using every means possible to cover their dirty dealings rather than cleaning up their act.
Huge success brings lots of cash. Large amounts of money bring nearly unlimited power with minimal accountability.
Unlimited power always leads to absolute corruption.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Re: Re: Re:
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
Welch said: "Yes. That is the only chance I have at being able to afford whatever advances may come."
It is a poor bet. One reason being that inventions which come now may well be off patent by the time you need them. Another reason is that you are assuming that funds can be found to pay for open source and that inventors can be talked into giving up their their legal rights. A tall order.
Riley said: "Are you confident that it will produce the kinds of advances which will benefit you?"
Welch said: "No. But I am confident that current medical advances do not benefit me, either."
You are already benefiting from expired inventions rights and you will further benefit every rear going ahead.
Riley said: "...the entitlement mindset of the community..."
Welch said: "Pot, this is the kettle. You're black."
Not really, and other inventors accept the contract which is set forth in law. We jump through all the hoops at great cost in time and money. We are entitled by law, pure and simple. What you advocate is not at all likely to do most people any good. To get the kind of continuous inventing needed to stay ahead of and better yet pull further ahead of what nature will do in its quest to kill us is a huge and incredibly expensive undertaking.
You need to look at the numbers for all medical research and then explain how it will be funded using open source. Beyond this, you have to consider how effective a fragmented effort will be.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Great Medical Inventors
I am not surprised. Some people create new things, more spend their time looting and destroying.
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Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???
I can predict the probability of rather or not it is likely to have merit based one what percentage of the poster's previous posts had merit.
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President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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Re: Re: Great Medical Inventors
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Re: Re: Re: Re: Great Medical Inventors
What orders? We do not sell anything to inventors. We do not accept any advertising and never have. Over twenty years contributions have not covered more then 10-15% of actual operating costs. I have made up the difference personally.
Any products or service providers you see listed on our sites are only there based on our belief that they benefit inventors.
We do not accept donations from big corporations. Several years ago one offered funding if we would roll over on First to File. The answer was hell no.
Invention promoters have tries to bribe us to endorse them, the answer was hell no.
So they hire people to smear us, they try to bully our service providers into taking down our web sites. They have tried to disrupt our operations in many other ways.
We have been doing what Wikileaks has for over a decade in a narrow niche area, inventing. Employees have leaked information to us. We gather it, look for patterns in it and connections between different players. We gather victims information. We coach them about how to file complaints. In many case I personally call owners of invention promotion companies and demand that they return peoples money, and if they do not do so they end up with quality time.
Inventors who manage to avoid or survive invention promotion fraud and who do have a valuable invention virtually always face similar problems from big companies.
In their case we help avoid common pitfalls such as being suckered into a declaratory judgment action (DJ). We help them find help and business partners and if necessary contingency litigators.
If they have to sue we often speak out about cases because they cannot. Big thieving corporations run smear campaigns while inventors are forced to be silent. And when cases settle they usually have a gag provision which forces inventors, to remain silent.
Because of our work, we face an endless stream of bogus threats to sue. We are subjected to defamation by paid bloggers. They post in our names, often outrageous stuff and then they compile their own comments which have been posted under a slew of aliases into blogs or sites.
All of this is why I am sympathetic to Wikileaks and the people involved with them. It is why I sent a donation to Bradley Manning's defense fund. It was a real pain to track down and verify that I had a legitimate place to do so.
I think that Bradly Manning is sincere, young and naive. I believe that he had no idea of just how nasty power brokers are and I think that if those people can get away with it that he will end up in a dungeon for the rest of his life or worse.
Lots of nasty things happen in the world because people who should stand tall and expose corruption, criminal activity, dirty political activity and what not remain silent. In addition, there seems to be no shortage of people who will sell their soul and stooge for bad players.
This is how the Holocaust and many other bad things happen. People who should no better stand silent.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Let's play set theory
It was patent royalties which allowed me to do advocacy work. My interest in advocacy work has been motivated by my underlying teaching mentality and the joy I get from seeing people succeed. It is also motivated by the fact that America cannot prosper by reselling commodity products which are made in developing countries. We must produce new wealth if we expect to maintain our standard of living. Patent protected inventions produce new wealth which cannot be filched by others. No patent protection means that a new invention can be immediately commercialized by transnational corporations in low wage countries.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Let's play set theory
If you spent much time in the beltway you would understand just how corrosive the environment is.
For example, a woman who was on Leahy's staff husband is a lobbyist of the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness. Obama moved her to his staff. I and many other people I am in contact found that she is a real scum bag. Someone meets with her and she tells stories totally at odds with what actually happens. In Washington the scum truly rises to the top. It happens all the time.
We have a Microsoft stooge and an IBM stooge in top Administration positions.
There are many honest politicians who really are trying to do a good job from both political parties but they are not the ones who end up with the most authority.
Both our government and the Supreme Court are in the pockets of the biggest businesses. This is a very difficult problem to solve. It is downright depressing.
We need to greatly restrict corporation rights. The restrictions should be proportional to their size.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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