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: Let's play set theory
"outlawing political lobbying"
This would suit me but I am afraid that it is virtually impossible to stop all means of lobbying.
I have spent an inordinate amount of time and resources over the last fifteen years trying stop big businesses attempts to turn the patent system into a kings sport.
I would rather have been doing more productive things.
For one example of lobbying which is hard to counter look at IBM being able to place their man in charge of the USPTO.
IBM has been a bad joke for years. They flood the patent system with incredible numbers of minor incremental inventions.
As if that is not bad enough, with their man in charge they were issued a record 5896 patents in 2010, up from 4,914 in 2009. At the same time the number of independent inventors keep dropping because the patent office services Microsoft and IBM first. This is killing start up companies and furthermore it allows the big companies to pickup small company's patents dirt cheap.
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: missing for how long ???
This is the kind of petty crap which has led to so much disrespect for TechDIRT.
Rose,
After doing a bit of research I can see that you are at risk for some serious health problems. Do you really want the incentive to produce medical inventions to be changed to open source? Are you confident that it will produce the kinds of advances which will benefit you?
Mind you, I am not against open source inventing as long as it is based on rights freely given.
But when I look a open source software, the quality or lack thereof for a very long time, granted it is slowly getting better but most is not ready for prime time, and the entitlement mindset of the community I am not encouraged.
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.
Name them and hand over their verifiable contact information.
I will give you half of what you want, names of some of them. I am not going to give you direct contact information but you are welcome to contact and ask if yo an find public sources. Some have passed away.
Living:
Dr. Ray Damadian (MRI)
Wilson Greatbatch (Pacemaker and battery technology)
Deceased:
Gertrude Elion (Childrens leukemia treatment and anti rejection drugs)
Jerry Lemelson (Many inventions)
So you found invention promoters and their stooges posting nonsense. Look up what I have actually wrote and see if you can find any reasonable personal profit motive. I am not and never have been paid from any of the advocacy organization I have founded. I live from patent royalties and I have donated the bulk of my time to community service for the last twenty years.
Incidentally, you should look at www.InventorEd.org/k-12. It has been widely used by both public schools and people home schooling their children.
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.
"You love them so much you let your ego screw up their education. Right."
I do my best to see that their education is broad and that they have critical thinking skills. Just stuffing facts into someones head does nothing to help them interpret those facts.
I come from a family full of teachers and I am a teacher at heart. I love to learn and love to see others learn.
There is no question that our education system is really screwed up. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has done nothing to address the underlying problems. One of the biggest problems with NCLB is that it dos not recognize that underlying brain function can be quite different between people. People cannot all be taught using a cookie cutter approach, and that is what schools do today.
There are two major problems with America's educational system. The first and most difficult are indifferent parents. The second is totally incompetent and unaccountable administrators. Blame for all school operational problems lies at their feet. That problem can be more easily fixed.
We need to round up most school administrators and nearly all bankers and ship them to Iran:)
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.
"Dude, seriously, you get people to pay you money telling them you will fight for them but you don't do anything,"
They do not pay me money. I have never been paid for inventor advocacy work. The organizations are have created over the last twenty plus years are all volunteer. None of us draws a salary.
Donation never cover all of our operational costs and I hae sunk several million of my own money in this in addition to donating staggering amounts of time.
I mentioned the similarities to Wikileaks before. We take on very large companies on behalf of fellow inventors. We have played a significant role in stymieing Patent Deform repeatedly over more than a decade under the auspices of the Alliance for American Innovation and the Professional Inventors Alliance (inventor trade association).
Our nonprofit arm, www.InventorEd.org fights invention promotion fraud. It would be an understatement to say that a few dozen companies which are fleecing staggering amounts of money do not like our work.
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.
Have you ever seen a TV commercial offering to help you with an invention? I have yet to see one which is not a fraud. They fleece people for typically between $10,000 and $50,000.
This is at least a $500 million dollar a year con game and it does destroy job creation.
I have for well over a decade been running the equivalent of Wikileaks which focuses on invention promotion fraud.
The fraudsters do not much like what we do:) So it should not come as a surprise that they defame me and anyone else they can identify as working to reign in their activities. The vast majority of our people stay anonymous for this reason.
I have reason to believe that Dozier is also associated with http://www.inved.org/caution/isc/, the tip about this connection came from Mike Drummond at Inventors Digest.
Invention Submission Corporation (ISC), now operating as InventHelp.com is the oldest and most notorious invention promoter in the US.
This is also a good time for me to mention that Paul Levy with the Public Citizen Litigation group has generously helped us deal with SLAPP threats from both ISC and Dozier. He and Public Citizen do great work protecting internet free speech. Paul Levy has also helped TechDIRT.
I mention this because if you value internet free speech you should contribute to the Public Citizen Litigation group.
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 agree, there is nothing wrong with you or anyone else studying expired patents and applying them. There is also nothing wrong with you studying current patents and working to produce a better invention. There is nothing wrong with your giving any inventions you produce away.
What s a problem is when people thing they have a right to take an invention which has an in force patent.
If you can find a way to fund all the current research and want to give away the results more power to you. I doubt that you or anyone else can raise that kind of money. The sums are truly staggering.
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 looked at typical medical insurance cost and then use a percentage of it. The exact estimate really dos not matter, what does matter is that someone has to pay. So you can pay for it like we do now, or you can pay for medical advances with a national tax and there is reason to think that that might be much less efficient. Or we can completely stop funding such research and live with or more likely die from the consequences.
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.
"Medicine has advanced plenty in the past without IP."
At a glacial pace. I have known a number of truly great inventors of medical devices and medicines. The amount of time and expense is staggering and inventors have to earn a living if they are going to be able continue to work.
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 think you're still upset that I called you an asshat. :)"
Not at all. So far I have not seen anything to make me value your opinion. At least with Mike Masnick he gets First Amendment issues, so as I see it his existence serves some purpose.
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.
Re: Re: So what is it ?? Is your education system THAT bad !!
Which shows that ignorance and an inability to grasp ethics is an international problem. If you look at how rule of law was created it becomes obvious that a fairly high percentage of people are incapable of understanding ethics at a gut level. That is why rules were created along with punishments to discourage breaking rules.
It is not perfect because those who are incapable of empathy they are always rationalizing that they should be exempt from rules. Many of them eventually end up enjoying state hospitality:)
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.
"Maybe copyright is not theft, but it is most certainly CRIME."
If it diverts an income stream from a rights holder it is theft. I think that Mike has created a cult of fairly young followers who have not matured to the point that they understand ethics. They want free. I remember likeing free in the sixties. I have spent 30 years and counting paying for all that free sex.
Nothing is really free because someone has to work to produce everything we need or want. Free marketing is a huge con, but marketing people have such pliable ethical and moral standards they cannot grasp why taking the fruits of others labor is flat out wrong.
Now, to add balance, once you have paid for a right the seller should not try to restrict you and only your ability to use what you have paid for.
Mike Masnick and his followers seem to be completely oblivious to these nuances of right and wrong.
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.
"The thing that annoys me most is intellectual property interfering with medicine at the expense of the poor."
A comment which is based of false assumptions. Who is going to invest in medial advances if they cannot recover their investment? I guess we could raise taxes to pay for all research and testing upfront. Lets say we levy a $1000 per person tax to publicly fund all medial research. We could decrease aid to developing countries by the same amount and offer all medical advances free to the world, and in so doing keep our contributions at the same level. Or you could just socialize all medical advances and watch them come to a screeching halt.
Humanity's population keeps rising. This means many more opportunities for nasty bugs to mutate. It also means more rapid spread of pathogens. Old antibiotics effectiveness are steadily decreasing. Bugs evolve. Nature is very effective at finding ways to kill us and it will continue to do so.
None of us or perhaps all of us are responsible for allowing conditions to develop which will kill poor people. Many breed to excess, especially in developing countries. People who lack resources will often have shorter lives. Access to medicine is only one aspect of this. If medicines are not invented then we will all have shorter life expectancies.
In fact, the real problem is over population and that will sooner or later lead to a pandemic. It is inevitable.
For all the talk of logic this comment was not thought out. Medical advances are very costly and if there is no incentive for private parties to invest and if people are not willing to be taxed the only possible outcome is all of us being subject to death sooner rather than just the poor. As it stands now the poor do get cheap access to medical inventions when patents expire. That is most certainly better then not having the advances at all.
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.
"The thing that annoys me most is intellectual property interfering with medicine at the expense of the poor."
A comment which is based of false assumptions. Who is going to invest in medial advances if they cannot recover their investment? I guess we could raise taxes to pay for all research and testing upfront. Lets say we levy a $1000 per person tax to publicly fund all medial research. We could decrease aid to developing countries by the same amount and offer all medical advances free to the world, and in so doing keep our contributions at the same level. Or you could just socialize all medical advances and watch them come to a screeching halt.
Humanity's population keeps rising. This means many more opportunities for nasty bugs to mutate. It also means more rapid spread of pathogens. Old antibiotics effectiveness are steadily decreasing. Bugs evolve. Nature is very effective at finding ways to kill us and it will continue to do so.
None of us or perhaps all of us are responsible for allowing conditions to develop which will kill poor people. Many breed to excess, especially in developing countries. People who lack resources will often have shorter lives. Access to medicine is only one aspect of this. If medicines are not invented then we will all have shorter life expectancies.
In fact, the real problem is over population and that will sooner or later lead to a pandemic. It is inevitable.
For all the talk of logic this comment was not thought out. Medical advances are very costly and if there is no incentive for private parties to invest and if people are not willing to be taxed the only possible outcome is all of us being subject to death sooner rather than just the poor. As it stands now the poor do get cheap access to medical inventions when patents expire. That is most certainly better then not having the advances at all.
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.
"I'd argue that give it away and pray is not a good plan."
Every time an inventor shows their invention to a large company they face this. At least one in ten will steal the invention.
It is amazing how big companies want inventors to "give it away and pray" & pray & pray. The idea is that as long as we are praying they are profiting. Anyone who studies the history of invention without the TechDIRT blinders on knows that praying is not productive and kicking tail is what is productive.
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
My server logs show a great deal of traffic to www.InventorEd.org/k-12/. I have also had home schoolers contact me about it.
We are getting ready to update it. You could do something useful and make productive suggestions.
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: Let's play set theory
This would suit me but I am afraid that it is virtually impossible to stop all means of lobbying.
I have spent an inordinate amount of time and resources over the last fifteen years trying stop big businesses attempts to turn the patent system into a kings sport.
I would rather have been doing more productive things.
For one example of lobbying which is hard to counter look at IBM being able to place their man in charge of the USPTO.
IBM has been a bad joke for years. They flood the patent system with incredible numbers of minor incremental inventions.
As if that is not bad enough, with their man in charge they were issued a record 5896 patents in 2010, up from 4,914 in 2009. At the same time the number of independent inventors keep dropping because the patent office services Microsoft and IBM first. This is killing start up companies and furthermore it allows the big companies to pickup small company's patents dirt cheap.
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: missing for how long ???
Rose,
After doing a bit of research I can see that you are at risk for some serious health problems. Do you really want the incentive to produce medical inventions to be changed to open source? Are you confident that it will produce the kinds of advances which will benefit you?
Mind you, I am not against open source inventing as long as it is based on rights freely given.
But when I look a open source software, the quality or lack thereof for a very long time, granted it is slowly getting better but most is not ready for prime time, and the entitlement mindset of the community I am not encouraged.
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
Great Medical Inventors
I will give you half of what you want, names of some of them. I am not going to give you direct contact information but you are welcome to contact and ask if yo an find public sources. Some have passed away.
Living:
Dr. Ray Damadian (MRI)
Wilson Greatbatch (Pacemaker and battery technology)
Deceased:
Gertrude Elion (Childrens leukemia treatment and anti rejection drugs)
Jerry Lemelson (Many inventions)
So you found invention promoters and their stooges posting nonsense. Look up what I have actually wrote and see if you can find any reasonable personal profit motive. I am not and never have been paid from any of the advocacy organization I have founded. I live from patent royalties and I have donated the bulk of my time to community service for the last twenty years.
Incidentally, you should look at www.InventorEd.org/k-12. It has been widely used by both public schools and people home schooling their children.
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: Let's play set theory
I do my best to see that their education is broad and that they have critical thinking skills. Just stuffing facts into someones head does nothing to help them interpret those facts.
I come from a family full of teachers and I am a teacher at heart. I love to learn and love to see others learn.
There is no question that our education system is really screwed up. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has done nothing to address the underlying problems. One of the biggest problems with NCLB is that it dos not recognize that underlying brain function can be quite different between people. People cannot all be taught using a cookie cutter approach, and that is what schools do today.
There are two major problems with America's educational system. The first and most difficult are indifferent parents. The second is totally incompetent and unaccountable administrators. Blame for all school operational problems lies at their feet. That problem can be more easily fixed.
We need to round up most school administrators and nearly all bankers and ship them to Iran:)
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: Let's play set theory
They do not pay me money. I have never been paid for inventor advocacy work. The organizations are have created over the last twenty plus years are all volunteer. None of us draws a salary.
Donation never cover all of our operational costs and I hae sunk several million of my own money in this in addition to donating staggering amounts of time.
I mentioned the similarities to Wikileaks before. We take on very large companies on behalf of fellow inventors. We have played a significant role in stymieing Patent Deform repeatedly over more than a decade under the auspices of the Alliance for American Innovation and the Professional Inventors Alliance (inventor trade association).
Our nonprofit arm, www.InventorEd.org fights invention promotion fraud. It would be an understatement to say that a few dozen companies which are fleecing staggering amounts of money do not like our work.
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: Let's play set theory
Can't be him can it?"
Cute, but kind of dishonest since my picture is here and I look nothing like him.
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: Let's play set theory
Have you ever seen a TV commercial offering to help you with an invention? I have yet to see one which is not a fraud. They fleece people for typically between $10,000 and $50,000.
This is at least a $500 million dollar a year con game and it does destroy job creation.
I have for well over a decade been running the equivalent of Wikileaks which focuses on invention promotion fraud.
The fraudsters do not much like what we do:) So it should not come as a surprise that they defame me and anyone else they can identify as working to reign in their activities. The vast majority of our people stay anonymous for this reason.
The blog is run by promoters.
Supper Lawyer "Bull****" John Dozier represents one or more invention promoters. He threatened a number of people in our community. See: http://www.inventored.org/caution/inventor-link/ & http://www.cybertriallawyer-sucks.com/.
I have reason to believe that Dozier is also associated with http://www.inved.org/caution/isc/, the tip about this connection came from Mike Drummond at Inventors Digest.
Invention Submission Corporation (ISC), now operating as InventHelp.com is the oldest and most notorious invention promoter in the US.
This is also a good time for me to mention that Paul Levy with the Public Citizen Litigation group has generously helped us deal with SLAPP threats from both ISC and Dozier. He and Public Citizen do great work protecting internet free speech. Paul Levy has also helped TechDIRT.
I mention this because if you value internet free speech you should contribute to the Public Citizen Litigation group.
https://secure.citizen.org/t/10694/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=6079
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: Tact & End of medical inventions?
I agree, there is nothing wrong with you or anyone else studying expired patents and applying them. There is also nothing wrong with you studying current patents and working to produce a better invention. There is nothing wrong with your giving any inventions you produce away.
What s a problem is when people thing they have a right to take an invention which has an in force patent.
If you can find a way to fund all the current research and want to give away the results more power to you. I doubt that you or anyone else can raise that kind of money. The sums are truly staggering.
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: Tact & End of medical inventions?
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: End of most medical inventions?
At a glacial pace. I have known a number of truly great inventors of medical devices and medicines. The amount of time and expense is staggering and inventors have to earn a living if they are going to be able continue to work.
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: missing for how long ???
Not at all. So far I have not seen anything to make me value your opinion. At least with Mike Masnick he gets First Amendment issues, so as I see it his existence serves some purpose.
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: Let's play set theory
No, I never did contract a STD. But I did get married and have kids. They are even more expensive than buying a house:)
The older I get the more I love kids, it is the only irrational thing I do:)
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: missing for how long ???
Maybe this has something to with a pattern of what you have to say not being worth reading.
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: So what is it ?? Is your education system THAT bad !!
It is not perfect because those who are incapable of empathy they are always rationalizing that they should be exempt from rules. Many of them eventually end up enjoying state hospitality:)
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: Let's play set theory
If it diverts an income stream from a rights holder it is theft. I think that Mike has created a cult of fairly young followers who have not matured to the point that they understand ethics. They want free. I remember likeing free in the sixties. I have spent 30 years and counting paying for all that free sex.
Nothing is really free because someone has to work to produce everything we need or want. Free marketing is a huge con, but marketing people have such pliable ethical and moral standards they cannot grasp why taking the fruits of others labor is flat out wrong.
Now, to add balance, once you have paid for a right the seller should not try to restrict you and only your ability to use what you have paid for.
Mike Masnick and his followers seem to be completely oblivious to these nuances of right and wrong.
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: Tact & End of medical inventions?
A comment which is based of false assumptions. Who is going to invest in medial advances if they cannot recover their investment? I guess we could raise taxes to pay for all research and testing upfront. Lets say we levy a $1000 per person tax to publicly fund all medial research. We could decrease aid to developing countries by the same amount and offer all medical advances free to the world, and in so doing keep our contributions at the same level. Or you could just socialize all medical advances and watch them come to a screeching halt.
Humanity's population keeps rising. This means many more opportunities for nasty bugs to mutate. It also means more rapid spread of pathogens. Old antibiotics effectiveness are steadily decreasing. Bugs evolve. Nature is very effective at finding ways to kill us and it will continue to do so.
None of us or perhaps all of us are responsible for allowing conditions to develop which will kill poor people. Many breed to excess, especially in developing countries. People who lack resources will often have shorter lives. Access to medicine is only one aspect of this. If medicines are not invented then we will all have shorter life expectancies.
In fact, the real problem is over population and that will sooner or later lead to a pandemic. It is inevitable.
For all the talk of logic this comment was not thought out. Medical advances are very costly and if there is no incentive for private parties to invest and if people are not willing to be taxed the only possible outcome is all of us being subject to death sooner rather than just the poor. As it stands now the poor do get cheap access to medical inventions when patents expire. That is most certainly better then not having the advances at all.
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
End of most medical inventions?
A comment which is based of false assumptions. Who is going to invest in medial advances if they cannot recover their investment? I guess we could raise taxes to pay for all research and testing upfront. Lets say we levy a $1000 per person tax to publicly fund all medial research. We could decrease aid to developing countries by the same amount and offer all medical advances free to the world, and in so doing keep our contributions at the same level. Or you could just socialize all medical advances and watch them come to a screeching halt.
Humanity's population keeps rising. This means many more opportunities for nasty bugs to mutate. It also means more rapid spread of pathogens. Old antibiotics effectiveness are steadily decreasing. Bugs evolve. Nature is very effective at finding ways to kill us and it will continue to do so.
None of us or perhaps all of us are responsible for allowing conditions to develop which will kill poor people. Many breed to excess, especially in developing countries. People who lack resources will often have shorter lives. Access to medicine is only one aspect of this. If medicines are not invented then we will all have shorter life expectancies.
In fact, the real problem is over population and that will sooner or later lead to a pandemic. It is inevitable.
For all the talk of logic this comment was not thought out. Medical advances are very costly and if there is no incentive for private parties to invest and if people are not willing to be taxed the only possible outcome is all of us being subject to death sooner rather than just the poor. As it stands now the poor do get cheap access to medical inventions when patents expire. That is most certainly better then not having the advances at all.
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:
You must be running nearly empty by now.
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:
Every time an inventor shows their invention to a large company they face this. At least one in ten will steal the invention.
It is amazing how big companies want inventors to "give it away and pray" & pray & pray. The idea is that as long as we are praying they are profiting. Anyone who studies the history of invention without the TechDIRT blinders on knows that praying is not productive and kicking tail is what is productive.
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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