mrcolj’s Comments

• Nov 5th, 2015 @ 1:07pm

  Re: Re: Re: Enough with the fanboy authors who haven't studied the issues!

  on Court Has An Opportunity To Finally End The East Texas Patent Troll Docket
  How do you even argue for a bad ruling when there's a jury? How many people have to be involved in a conspiracy like that if uber-corp has 60 lawyers in a case and five years to produce a power-point presentation, normaly against a 6 lawyer team representing one scientist, and after all that and millions spent by the uber-corps the jury rules in favor of the scientist? The system is set up precisely so it's very difficult to call "bad ruling" or "corruption" on it--it's a jury of your peers and no one is handicapped in their presentation, so where would we even point to accuse some confederacy?
• Nov 5th, 2015 @ 1:03pm

  Re: Re: Enough with the fanboy authors who haven't studied the issues!

  on Court Has An Opportunity To Finally End The East Texas Patent Troll Docket
  Absolutely. Find me a bad ruling or evidence of corruption, especially enough to hint a trend, and I'll quickly acquiesce. But if you read up on the topic you'll find there are not even any accusations of such outside sites like techdirt, which cater to a certain demographic that loves conspiracies and uber-corps. (Hey, I'm on here because I'm your same age and demographic and probably work in the same fields.) But as I said earlier, it's worth noting aloud that few to no attorneys or judges believe this dialogue. And who else are you going to believe? Who even speaks on this topic besides Defendants' PR firms?
• Nov 3rd, 2015 @ 12:31pm

  Enough with the fanboy authors who haven't studied the issues!

  on Court Has An Opportunity To Finally End The East Texas Patent Troll Docket
  Can we be any more convinced that people are just pawns of the PR firms of the giant software companies? I'm sorry, but East Texas became the seat of software patent cases for one reason--the Judge that was conveniently skipped over in this article, the chief judge for a long period, was the only federal judge in the nation who, before he became a Judge, was a programmer. In other words he was the only judge who could read source code. He's retired now, but that was the case for years. All the corporations AND inventors sought out his court because he was the only one who could understand at that level. And yes, because he was techie he chopped a lot of the inefficiencies and time wasters that besides wasting years made the system biased toward the richest corporations, who could always just wait out the poor mad scientist inventor. One of their other main tricks, as it is to this day, is to convince judges to make "summary judgments," to throw things out where there was still a dispute of fact. He mostly disallowed that, said that he'd throw things out on legal grounds, but if it was a question of guilt, he'd put it before a jury, the way the American system was intended. (Remember your right to a trial by jury in the Constitution? Well that's going away, and the ones paying the bills on making that go away are the big businesses, and THAT is what concerns these judges.)
  
  All I'm saying is go ask any of these judges, go ask any judge in the nation, what's going on and they'll say the exact opposite of the "patent troll" dialogue the paid-for media has been paid to promote.