I am asking you again to do the same. Stop lying about inventors and the inventor community.
We invest years, often a decade or more conceiving our inventions. We accept the contract which is the law of the land to teach our inventions via a patent(s). There is considerable cost involved in teaching beyond the act of inventing.
Government promises inventors exclusive rights to their inventions for twenty years from the date of filing. It can easily take a decade to capitalize on that promise.
After we get a patent the sharks come out in force and try to steal the fruits of our labor. They commit every type of fraud you can imagine to cover their tracks. They do their best to bankrupt us through abuse of the process of law. They hire PR people to smear inventors both individually and collectively. They sponsor academics to carry their water, and they even hire people to blog.
It would be an understatement to say that TechDIRT's position on patents is extreme. Everything in my experience has taught me to follow the money.
But then over a decade to butting heads with disreputable patent pirating companies has played a role in shaping my worldview.
So Mike, if you want to understand what makes independent inventors tick, get a copy of the Flash of Genius movie and watch it. I knew the inventor, Bob Kearns well. Then get a copy of Nick Taylor's book about the Laser, and read a bit about Farnsworth. Then maybe we can have a productive discussion which just might lead to some common ground.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious
The issue is where your bread is being buttered.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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.
Our web sites are well established and we do not need the links to improve ranking or to bring those who know what they are looking for to our web site.
I have pointed out before that the primary reason for posting to TechDIRT is that their positions are so outragious on patent issues, their ignorance about the nature of inventing as a profession is so profound that they draw the attention and ire of inventors.
It is those inventors who I want to engage. We are fighting an all out war with both invention promotion frauds and thieving large companies. The more inventors and other parties who are concerned about long term prosperity whom we can engage the better. They are my target audience. Most certainly I have ZERO chance of educating anti-patent TechDIRT members.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
The party posting as William Scott Esq. was exposed long ago as a disbarred atty-lobbyist. Of coarse that is not his real name. It is virtually certain that he was one of the invention promotion fraudsters busted in Project Mousetrap by the Federal Trade Commission.
I have said this many times before but it bears repeating, invention promoters are not very bright. They are high pressure sales people and that is the limit of their skills. They are clueless about how to market an invention.
I and our organizations played a role in getting the FTC to revisit and review current activities of a number of the parties in the Project Mousetrap action. Subsequently, one was on the wrong end of a $26 million dollar award, another was assessed $60 million and his business placed in Federal receivership and others are the subjects of ongoing investigations. Needless to say, these crooks are not happy campers.
I started advocating for inventor's rights in 1990. Since 1990 I have donated my time without compensation. I was able to do this because of royalties from my patents. From 1990 to about 2006 the vast majority of overhead was funded personally.
It has only been since 2006 that we solicited donations and we fully disclose to the IRS as required by law. We are not going to disclose names of donors and service providers publicly and especially not to anyone associated with invention promotion fraud.
I most certainly agree that inventors should seek qualified counsel on legal matters. But it is a fact that few people in the legal profession understand the big picture of how an inventor should proceed. In fact there is no single path to success which is correct, every situation is unique and in the end inventors must make these decisions for themselves.
The best way for inventors to learn about their possible course of action is to network with other commercially successful inventors. That is what my advocacy work has been about, helping inventors network with others who have already walked the path, and just as important is helping them avoid common pitfalls such as invention promotion fraudsters and helping them avoid common pitfalls in their dealings with large corporations.
Those pitfalls include avoiding giving patent pirating large companies an excuse to bring a declaratory judgment lawsuit against the inventor (typical cost $100,000 and up) and helping inventors find effective and honest patent enforcement partners (some of whom are as bad as the big patent pirating companies).
The party posting as William Scott has used many aliases, often to respond to and try to reinforce their own posts. They even created a blog in my name and have posted to Internet using my name. This is not a surprise since these are the same people who are stealing between $10,000 and $50,000 from aspiring inventors. Collectively this relatively small group of fraudsters are fleecing people for over $500 million a year. Some of the ringleaders in these fraudulent operations are making $10-$20 MILLION a year.
The inventor community has helped put a number of these con artists in jail. Others will be joining them.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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.
Every infringer who is brought to justice claims patent abuse.
Kicking infringing company's tails in a court of law is not abuse. Research in Motion and Microsoft are both good examples of this.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: TechDIRT hosting ads for invention promoters.
And why does TechDIRT allow such ads? They do have the ability to block them.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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.
Remember that the point of the patent system is to get an inventor to fully disclose the best mode of their invention in order to advance the art. The point is to stimulate others to build on the invention, either to get around it with an alternative in order to avoid having to pay or to completely eclipse the invention. They in turn get exclusive use by teaching their improvements via a patent.
Those who fail to TEACH society at large something new have NO RIGHTS.
This is a carrot and stick approach to advancing the collective body of knowledge.
Teaching the invention is very costly and is rewarded with a patent.
There would be no incentive to teach otherwise.
Once the inventor does their part all the weasels come out, a group which is in abundance on TechDIRT.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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 *no* monetary stake in the patent system at all."
But you just happen to have founding members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness as clients and advertisers? The group is well known for hiring people to push their agenda on Internet, and for hiring academics to promote their agenda with books and papers.
So you do have a stake.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
How about posting your name? It seems kind of hypocritical for you to criticize other who do disclose their affiliations while you hide your own.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
The point is that I have always fully disclosed my affiliations while it has taken a considerable amount of time to uncover TechDIRT's affiliations.
Those affiliations are telling, with most being members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness, a group whose unfairness is legendary.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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.
Only banking, insurance and a several dozen tech companies are trying to destroy patents. A larger group of older companies want to turn patents into a king's sport, preserving their rights while undermining the rights of independent, academic, and small business inventors.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
The East Texas court has every right and it delivers justice far faster than other courts. It is the speed of the court which draws small and large entities alike.
Big business hates this court because the court does not put up delaying tactics and other forms of legal abuse which many other courts allow.
The remarks impugning the integrity of East Texas judges are outrageous and libel.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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.
Lemley is just another academic feeding at corp trough
His connections to members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness & Piracy are well known.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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.
"Our patent system is beyond broken, it hinders innovation"
NO, our patent system hinders those who did not invent. It does this by design.
This kind of reasoning is what we get from every crook or would be crook. They all are incapable of understanding ethics.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
The incentive to patent over treating an invention as a trade secret is that if and when someone else produces the invention they can then exclude the trade secret user form use of the invention. So while the person using the trade secret might get more then twenty years of use they may well find themselves prohibited from using the invention well before twenty years.
So called Prior User Rights were originally promoted by Bill Budinger, I believe his situation was a result of greed and stupidity. Other large companies realized that a claim of being a prior user was another defense for stealing others inventions, and jumped on the band wagon.
By pushing Early Publication it lowers the uncertainty about when an invention is conceived and that facilitates manufacturing false evidence to invalidate a patent.
Examples of companies who have been caught committing fraud on the court are Microsoft and Research in motion. It is quite difficult to catch those committing fraud and often those doing so get away with larceny on a grand scale.
Members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness have many issues of this nature. They have been caught committing many other indiscretions such as illegal spying on media, employees, and competitors, cooking their books, insider trading, knowingly putting their customers at risk of injury or death, the list goes on.
Today plenty of people recognize that banking and insurance entities are very nasty players. What most do not realize is that much of the tech industry, at least the largest companies are every bit as corrupt.
All three of the mentioned groups are behind attempts to eviscerate the patent system in order to facilitate their theft of American ingenuity. They are collectively stealing billions of dollars a year and spending a few hundred million to promote Patent Deform.
The bit of historical imformation I have given here is a perfect example of the kind of perspective that TechDIRT staff lack about IP issues. Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
If TechDirt had its way America would give up the only thing which stands between Americas' current standard of living and a drop which the current recession look like child's play.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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 just a marketing gimmick on Sony's part and worthless in light of poor engineering, unreliable products, and atrocious service.
Sony built a great reputation over decades and has squandered it in a few years. Apple and Google, both members of the Piracy Coalition are doing the same today.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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 just a marketing gimmick on Sony's part and worthless in light of poor engineering, unreliable products, and atrocious service.
Sony built a great reputation over decades and has squandered it in a few years. Apple and Google, both members of the Piracy Coalition are doing the same today.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
The courts have a very well developed process for determining what is obvious. It is a fact that most people are incapable of recognizing once they have been told how to do something that it was not obvious.
It is also a fact that no one at TechDIRT is qualified to comment on the patent system. It is also obvious that TechDIRT's position on patents is closely aligned with the companies they are doing business with. What is not clear is rather TechDIRT's bias was driven by these association from the beginning or was it a gambit to get business.
Considering the Conduct of both the Coalition for Patent Fairness and their members I am inclined to think that the relationship has been there from the beginning.
As to poor misunderstood Microsoft, they have been caught repeatedly with their sticky fingers in others' patent cookie jars, and they paddies have been repetitively slapped by the courts. There is an OBVIOUS pattern of conduct and it is understandable why they want to Deform the patent system to facilitate their pattern of conduct.
In any event, we are all judged in part by the company we keep and the company TechDIRT is keeping does not paint a pretty picture. Classic short term gain orientation.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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.
Some serve to harass disgruntled clients for big business which does not understand that delivering fair value and good service is the best way to cultivate a good reputation.
Others promote big company's political goals.
At this point I think that reasonable people may wonder if TechDIRT is a haven for both types of promotion of less than reputable businesses which are looking for insight into how they can cover their their tracks.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Re: Re: Re: stop the shilling!!!
We invest years, often a decade or more conceiving our inventions. We accept the contract which is the law of the land to teach our inventions via a patent(s). There is considerable cost involved in teaching beyond the act of inventing.
Government promises inventors exclusive rights to their inventions for twenty years from the date of filing. It can easily take a decade to capitalize on that promise.
After we get a patent the sharks come out in force and try to steal the fruits of our labor. They commit every type of fraud you can imagine to cover their tracks. They do their best to bankrupt us through abuse of the process of law. They hire PR people to smear inventors both individually and collectively. They sponsor academics to carry their water, and they even hire people to blog.
It would be an understatement to say that TechDIRT's position on patents is extreme. Everything in my experience has taught me to follow the money.
But then over a decade to butting heads with disreputable patent pirating companies has played a role in shaping my worldview.
So Mike, if you want to understand what makes independent inventors tick, get a copy of the Flash of Genius movie and watch it. I knew the inventor, Bob Kearns well. Then get a copy of Nick Taylor's book about the Laser, and read a bit about Farnsworth. Then maybe we can have a productive discussion which just might lead to some common ground.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Re: Re: Re: Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Re: Chicken / Re:
Our web sites are well established and we do not need the links to improve ranking or to bring those who know what they are looking for to our web site.
I have pointed out before that the primary reason for posting to TechDIRT is that their positions are so outragious on patent issues, their ignorance about the nature of inventing as a profession is so profound that they draw the attention and ire of inventors.
It is those inventors who I want to engage. We are fighting an all out war with both invention promotion frauds and thieving large companies. The more inventors and other parties who are concerned about long term prosperity whom we can engage the better. They are my target audience. Most certainly I have ZERO chance of educating anti-patent TechDIRT members.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Re: Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious
I have said this many times before but it bears repeating, invention promoters are not very bright. They are high pressure sales people and that is the limit of their skills. They are clueless about how to market an invention.
I and our organizations played a role in getting the FTC to revisit and review current activities of a number of the parties in the Project Mousetrap action. Subsequently, one was on the wrong end of a $26 million dollar award, another was assessed $60 million and his business placed in Federal receivership and others are the subjects of ongoing investigations. Needless to say, these crooks are not happy campers.
I started advocating for inventor's rights in 1990. Since 1990 I have donated my time without compensation. I was able to do this because of royalties from my patents. From 1990 to about 2006 the vast majority of overhead was funded personally.
It has only been since 2006 that we solicited donations and we fully disclose to the IRS as required by law. We are not going to disclose names of donors and service providers publicly and especially not to anyone associated with invention promotion fraud.
I most certainly agree that inventors should seek qualified counsel on legal matters. But it is a fact that few people in the legal profession understand the big picture of how an inventor should proceed. In fact there is no single path to success which is correct, every situation is unique and in the end inventors must make these decisions for themselves.
The best way for inventors to learn about their possible course of action is to network with other commercially successful inventors. That is what my advocacy work has been about, helping inventors network with others who have already walked the path, and just as important is helping them avoid common pitfalls such as invention promotion fraudsters and helping them avoid common pitfalls in their dealings with large corporations.
Those pitfalls include avoiding giving patent pirating large companies an excuse to bring a declaratory judgment lawsuit against the inventor (typical cost $100,000 and up) and helping inventors find effective and honest patent enforcement partners (some of whom are as bad as the big patent pirating companies).
The party posting as William Scott has used many aliases, often to respond to and try to reinforce their own posts. They even created a blog in my name and have posted to Internet using my name. This is not a surprise since these are the same people who are stealing between $10,000 and $50,000 from aspiring inventors. Collectively this relatively small group of fraudsters are fleecing people for over $500 million a year. Some of the ringleaders in these fraudulent operations are making $10-$20 MILLION a year.
The inventor community has helped put a number of these con artists in jail. Others will be joining them.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: how about them apples?
Kicking infringing company's tails in a court of law is not abuse. Research in Motion and Microsoft are both good examples of this.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: TechDIRT hosting ads for invention promoters.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
TechDIRT Weasels / Re:
Those who fail to TEACH society at large something new have NO RIGHTS.
This is a carrot and stick approach to advancing the collective body of knowledge.
Teaching the invention is very costly and is rewarded with a patent.
There would be no incentive to teach otherwise.
Once the inventor does their part all the weasels come out, a group which is in abundance on TechDIRT.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Re: stop the shilling!!!
But you just happen to have founding members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness as clients and advertisers? The group is well known for hiring people to push their agenda on Internet, and for hiring academics to promote their agenda with books and papers.
So you do have a stake.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Chicken / Re:
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re:
On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Re: Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious
Those affiliations are telling, with most being members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness, a group whose unfairness is legendary.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Re: Re: Trade Secrets vs Patents
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Fix The Courts.
Big business hates this court because the court does not put up delaying tactics and other forms of legal abuse which many other courts allow.
The remarks impugning the integrity of East Texas judges are outrageous and libel.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Lemley is just another academic feeding at corp trough
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Re: Obvious it ain't
NO, our patent system hinders those who did not invent. It does this by design.
This kind of reasoning is what we get from every crook or would be crook. They all are incapable of understanding ethics.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Re: Trade Secrets vs Patents
So called Prior User Rights were originally promoted by Bill Budinger, I believe his situation was a result of greed and stupidity. Other large companies realized that a claim of being a prior user was another defense for stealing others inventions, and jumped on the band wagon.
By pushing Early Publication it lowers the uncertainty about when an invention is conceived and that facilitates manufacturing false evidence to invalidate a patent.
Examples of companies who have been caught committing fraud on the court are Microsoft and Research in motion. It is quite difficult to catch those committing fraud and often those doing so get away with larceny on a grand scale.
Members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness have many issues of this nature. They have been caught committing many other indiscretions such as illegal spying on media, employees, and competitors, cooking their books, insider trading, knowingly putting their customers at risk of injury or death, the list goes on.
Today plenty of people recognize that banking and insurance entities are very nasty players. What most do not realize is that much of the tech industry, at least the largest companies are every bit as corrupt.
All three of the mentioned groups are behind attempts to eviscerate the patent system in order to facilitate their theft of American ingenuity. They are collectively stealing billions of dollars a year and spending a few hundred million to promote Patent Deform.
The bit of historical imformation I have given here is a perfect example of the kind of perspective that TechDIRT staff lack about IP issues. Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
If TechDirt had its way America would give up the only thing which stands between Americas' current standard of living and a drop which the current recession look like child's play.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Sony Recognizes That Openness Is A Competitive Advantage
Sony-Poor Quality and Service
Sony built a great reputation over decades and has squandered it in a few years. Apple and Google, both members of the Piracy Coalition are doing the same today.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Sony Recognizes That Openness Is A Competitive Advantage
Sony-Poor Quality and Service
Sony built a great reputation over decades and has squandered it in a few years. Apple and Google, both members of the Piracy Coalition are doing the same today.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious
Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious
It is also a fact that no one at TechDIRT is qualified to comment on the patent system. It is also obvious that TechDIRT's position on patents is closely aligned with the companies they are doing business with. What is not clear is rather TechDIRT's bias was driven by these association from the beginning or was it a gambit to get business.
Considering the Conduct of both the Coalition for Patent Fairness and their members I am inclined to think that the relationship has been there from the beginning.
As to poor misunderstood Microsoft, they have been caught repeatedly with their sticky fingers in others' patent cookie jars, and they paddies have been repetitively slapped by the courts. There is an OBVIOUS pattern of conduct and it is understandable why they want to Deform the patent system to facilitate their pattern of conduct.
In any event, we are all judged in part by the company we keep and the company TechDIRT is keeping does not paint a pretty picture. Classic short term gain orientation.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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: Rep. Lofgren: A Real Antitrust Issue That Needs Scrutiny Is Copyright
Paid Bloggers
Some serve to harass disgruntled clients for big business which does not understand that delivering fair value and good service is the best way to cultivate a good reputation.
Others promote big company's political goals.
At this point I think that reasonable people may wonder if TechDIRT is a haven for both types of promotion of less than reputable businesses which are looking for insight into how they can cover their their tracks.
Ronald J. Riley,
Speaking only on my own behalf.
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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