“from the bad-reporting dept”
It is nice to see we have some common ground here, because most TechDIRT reporting on patent issues is to put it mildly bad.
“The patent was issued in 2003 “ “It's difficult to see how anyone could claim with a straight face willful infringement when you just informed them of your patent”
Patents teach others the best mode of an invention. You acknowledge that the patent issued in 2003. Google is a sophisticated company with ready access to the patent database. The published patent is well known, hence willful infringement.
Some inventors have donated use of their inventions for open source. At one time I favored this approach but I have yet to see the open source community so much as say thank you. In fact, the open source community is much like a spoiled teenager who not only fails to appreciate things which are done for them but demands more.
As a result of this nasty mindset I have for several years been discouraging inventors from contributing in any way to open source because the community seems to be made up of crooked ingrates.
The root of the problem is that open source as an industry is based on a profit motive which is facilitated by a loss leader in the form of “free software” which is anything but free.
Open source is a profit based enterprise and as long as someone is making a profit on an inventor’s patent property rights the inventor is entitled to a royality.
Google is currently in the corporate adolescent stage. Like many young successful companies they have developed very big egos and an attitude that they can take liberties with others intellectual property. They have become a parasite on inventors. It has been reported that they have a scorched earth litigation policy. This may work for some time but it is inevitable that eventually they will be handed their head just as has happened with Microsoft and RIM. They chose to live by the sword and anyone who understands history knows how that will end. It is only a matter of time.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
"Techdirt also says that it is practically impossible to succeed in shutting down the pirates. And it is ill-advised to criminalize your customers."
Since they are not customers and many have no intention of being customers then there is nothing to lose by prosecuting them.
TechDIRT drivel is astounding.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
It is nice to see you thinking outside the box. Keep that up and you just might learn how to become an inventor. And then you might actually understand just how much work goes into producing an invention and the need for inventors to be fairly compensated so that they can afford to continue to invent.
With this would come an understanding that all those self professed "innovators" who build their fortunes stealing from actual inventors are scum. While not every scummy patent pirating "innovator" is a member of the Coalition for Patent Fairness & PIRACY the group most certainly has a significant percentage of the worst players.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR act 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.
What do you suggest an inventor do when a large company takes their invention and the profits from that invention and thumbs their nose at the inventor? This happens all the time.
There is no justice available to an inventor below ten million dollars of infringement; there may be justice between ten and a hundred million. Over a hundred million it is not difficult to get people willing to enforce the inventors' rights.
Then and only then the inventor might see justice. This depends of the court, and some courts actively encourage the thieves and aid and abet their dragging the case out for ten-30 years. The end result being that most inventors go bankrupt.
And that is why inventors flock to Texas. The court does not tolerate delaying tactics.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR act 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.
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.
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.
Mike says: "I'm not a fan of patent holders who try to stop actual innovators in the marketplace"
Belligerently misappropriating others' inventions does not make the entity doing so an innovator. It makes them a patent pirate.
This kind of abuse of process of law is standard fare among patent pirates and any company pulling this kind of stunt should be subject to sanctions.
I received an anonymous tip that Juniper has pulled this kind of stunt in the past. Perhaps someone with a legal background can research rather this is the case.
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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Yep, TechDIRT is the "bad-reporting dept" (as Ronald J Riley)
“from the bad-reporting dept”
It is nice to see we have some common ground here, because most TechDIRT reporting on patent issues is to put it mildly bad.
“The patent was issued in 2003 “ “It's difficult to see how anyone could claim with a straight face willful infringement when you just informed them of your patent”
Patents teach others the best mode of an invention. You acknowledge that the patent issued in 2003. Google is a sophisticated company with ready access to the patent database. The published patent is well known, hence willful infringement.
Some inventors have donated use of their inventions for open source. At one time I favored this approach but I have yet to see the open source community so much as say thank you. In fact, the open source community is much like a spoiled teenager who not only fails to appreciate things which are done for them but demands more.
As a result of this nasty mindset I have for several years been discouraging inventors from contributing in any way to open source because the community seems to be made up of crooked ingrates.
The root of the problem is that open source as an industry is based on a profit motive which is facilitated by a loss leader in the form of “free software” which is anything but free.
Open source is a profit based enterprise and as long as someone is making a profit on an inventor’s patent property rights the inventor is entitled to a royality.
Google is currently in the corporate adolescent stage. Like many young successful companies they have developed very big egos and an attitude that they can take liberties with others intellectual property. They have become a parasite on inventors. It has been reported that they have a scorched earth litigation policy. This may work for some time but it is inevitable that eventually they will be handed their head just as has happened with Microsoft and RIM. They chose to live by the sword and anyone who understands history knows how that will end. It is only a matter of time.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: how about them apples? (as Ronald J Riley)
"Techdirt also says that it is practically impossible to succeed in shutting down the pirates. And it is ill-advised to criminalize your customers."
Since they are not customers and many have no intention of being customers then there is nothing to lose by prosecuting them.
TechDIRT drivel is astounding.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (810) 597-0194 / (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.
Thinking Ouside the Box (as Ronald J Riley)
Mike,
It is nice to see you thinking outside the box. Keep that up and you just might learn how to become an inventor. And then you might actually understand just how much work goes into producing an invention and the need for inventors to be fairly compensated so that they can afford to continue to invent.
With this would come an understanding that all those self professed "innovators" who build their fortunes stealing from actual inventors are scum. While not every scummy patent pirating "innovator" is a member of the Coalition for Patent Fairness & PIRACY the group most certainly has a significant percentage of the worst players.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR act 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: A Fair Profit (as Ronald J Riley)
What do you suggest an inventor do when a large company takes their invention and the profits from that invention and thumbs their nose at the inventor? This happens all the time.
There is no justice available to an inventor below ten million dollars of infringement; there may be justice between ten and a hundred million. Over a hundred million it is not difficult to get people willing to enforce the inventors' rights.
Then and only then the inventor might see justice. This depends of the court, and some courts actively encourage the thieves and aid and abet their dragging the case out for ten-30 years. The end result being that most inventors go bankrupt.
And that is why inventors flock to Texas. The court does not tolerate delaying tactics.
Ronald J. Riley,
I am speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR act 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: Re: how about them apples? (as Ronald J Riley)
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. (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
TechDIRT Weasels / Re: (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
Re: Re: stop the shilling!!! (as Ronald J Riley)
"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.
Chicken / Re: (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
Re: (as Ronald J Riley)
Re: Re: Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
Re: Re: Re: Trade Secrets vs Patents (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
Re: Fix The Courts. (as Ronald J Riley)
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 (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
Re: Re: Obvious it ain't (as Ronald J Riley)
"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.
Re: Trade Secrets vs Patents (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
Sony-Poor Quality and Service (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
Sony-Poor Quality and Service (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious (as Ronald J Riley)
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.
Abuse of process of law no substitute for inventiveness. (as Ronald J Riley)
Mike says: "I'm not a fan of patent holders who try to stop actual innovators in the marketplace"
Belligerently misappropriating others' inventions does not make the entity doing so an innovator. It makes them a patent pirate.
This kind of abuse of process of law is standard fare among patent pirates and any company pulling this kind of stunt should be subject to sanctions.
I received an anonymous tip that Juniper has pulled this kind of stunt in the past. Perhaps someone with a legal background can research rather this is the case.
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.