H.R. 4954 (stalled since March 2010)
House bill 4954 mirrors the language being proposed in the Senate patent reform bill. This bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on March 25, 2010 and just sits there as hundreds of new business killing law suits get filed in Fed Courts nationwide.
600+ American Companies sued for expired patent false marking cases now active in Patent troll sympathetic Federal District Courts nationwide... click link to see the new cases added this week!
House Judiciary leader Rep Darrel Issa ( R from Ca.) now has control of these Congressional bills to quash these expired patent # cases and we sure hope he immediately does this for all the sued parties so they can grow their product lines and expand their businesses with new jobs created by revising Patent Marking Laws.
Congressman Darrell Issa represents the people of California?s 49th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, a seat he has held since 2001. The 49th District includes Camp Pendleton, the largest Marine Corps training facility in the United States.
As a senior in high school, Issa enlisted in the United States Army. Through his Army service, he received an ROTC scholarship and graduated with a degree in business from Sienna Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. Upon graduation, Issa was commissioned as an Army officer, and ultimately obtained the rank of captain. He completed his active-duty military service in 1980 and turned his interests to the private sector.
At the height of his career in business, Issa served as CEO of California-based Directed Electronics, a company that Issa founded and built in the mid-1990s to become the nation?s largest manufacturer of vehicle anti-theft devices, including the highly-successful patented Viper system. In 1994, Issa was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. Magazine, Ernst & Young and The San Diego Union Tribune. During his leadership of Directed Electronics, Issa served as chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association, an organization of 2000 companies within the consumer technology industry that hosts the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. When he stepped down as CEO to serve as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Directed Electronics Inc employed nearly 200 people making a selling his patent products.
As a Congressman Issa has championed the cause of smart, efficient government, and has pushed legislation to balance the federal budget and promote transparency across the federal bureaucracy. Darrel Issa currently is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where he serves as the Chairman. Previously, Issa served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Energy & Commerce Committee, and the Small Business Committee.
As the holder of 37 patents himself, Darrel Issa has been vigilant about protecting the intellectual property rights patent holders, patent product manufacturers and other entrepreneurs to help protect America?s position at the forefront of product innovation and creativity by USA industries. He sponsored House Bill HR 4954 to stop the abusive Qui-Tam false patent marking cases threatening to destroy many US small manufacturing and sales firms like Holdup Suspender Company.
The statutes should allow only an actual harmed competitor from claiming Federal court damages and restraint of trade fines on phony patent # marked products. Heck it can't be easier to verify patents .. Google has a specific patent search feature at... http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search or 7 Million Patents via Google Patent Search API Jun 26, 2008 ... Google Patent Search The new Google Patent Search API is now available and lets you search over 7 million patents via code for free.
We are campaigning to modified US Patent marking laws. See our steps to change Patent laws and quash these disastrous job killing laws suits... We need a public outcry now the GOP recovered control of the people's House in Congress. Pressure along with us the various media outlets shinning a light on these shameful destructive job killing law suits. Hopefully Rep Issa, John Conyers, and new House leadership will fast track the above bills to cure these frivolous expired patent # suits is just wishful thinking they can change their anti-business way. Holdup Suspender Company, like hundreds of other US businesses caught by these greed driven shysters and their Congressional and Justice Dept protectors, cannot survive the huge legal bills nor the multi-million dollar Fed Court judgements. Fines exceeding the gross suspender sales since the Company's founding.
see http://www.falsemarking.net/district.php for upto date active cases and get real mad as these grow in 2011.
Great link to the law firms hiding behind these so called Qui Tam (whistleblower) suits can be seen at http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202462844743 I have a small business web site client caught up in a false patent mis-marking suit filed on friday. Holdup Suspender Company holds multiple US patents for their unique suspender clips as shown at www.suspenders.com/patented.html Their original no-slip suspender clip patent was issued in 1990 (#4,901,408) has expired. They were granted and new improved design patent granted in March 2010 (D619,495 S), but have clips marked with the expired patent # on USA made suspenders in stock, on customers and at retailer stores.
Darn shame they face potential closure as the very active (10 cases) Qui Tam and attorney pliantiffs in Ohio want $500 bucks per mis-marked suspender clip, their domain, and replacement of all suspenders marked with the expired patent number. They have 6 temp people filing off patent numbers this Labor Day weekend as the new replacement clip stock, with new patent #, is in limited supply. NIce move by the Obama small biz friendly administration and Eric Holder Attorney General to actually participate in suing these family run tax paying entrepenuers hopefully ranking in their life savings and forcing closure of their businesses.
Amazing... from Brooks Bros. Bow Ties to Holdup Suspenders the wannabee King with no clothes jumps ugly on every USA manufacturer who are inventive enough to have patented products. **Incidently every judge in every courtroom are using court reporting equipment and computer harddrives mis-marked with expired patent numbers so they should recuse themselves ... or get some common sense.
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False (expired) patent marking cases now exceed 927
H.R. 4954 (stalled since March 2010) House bill 4954 mirrors the language being proposed in the Senate patent reform bill. This bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on March 25, 2010 and just sits there as hundreds of new business killing law suits get filed in Fed Courts nationwide. 600+ American Companies sued for expired patent false marking cases now active in Patent troll sympathetic Federal District Courts nationwide... click link to see the new cases added this week! House Judiciary leader Rep Darrel Issa ( R from Ca.) now has control of these Congressional bills to quash these expired patent # cases and we sure hope he immediately does this for all the sued parties so they can grow their product lines and expand their businesses with new jobs created by revising Patent Marking Laws. Congressman Darrell Issa represents the people of California?s 49th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, a seat he has held since 2001. The 49th District includes Camp Pendleton, the largest Marine Corps training facility in the United States. As a senior in high school, Issa enlisted in the United States Army. Through his Army service, he received an ROTC scholarship and graduated with a degree in business from Sienna Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. Upon graduation, Issa was commissioned as an Army officer, and ultimately obtained the rank of captain. He completed his active-duty military service in 1980 and turned his interests to the private sector. At the height of his career in business, Issa served as CEO of California-based Directed Electronics, a company that Issa founded and built in the mid-1990s to become the nation?s largest manufacturer of vehicle anti-theft devices, including the highly-successful patented Viper system. In 1994, Issa was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. Magazine, Ernst & Young and The San Diego Union Tribune. During his leadership of Directed Electronics, Issa served as chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association, an organization of 2000 companies within the consumer technology industry that hosts the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. When he stepped down as CEO to serve as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Directed Electronics Inc employed nearly 200 people making a selling his patent products. As a Congressman Issa has championed the cause of smart, efficient government, and has pushed legislation to balance the federal budget and promote transparency across the federal bureaucracy. Darrel Issa currently is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where he serves as the Chairman. Previously, Issa served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Energy & Commerce Committee, and the Small Business Committee. As the holder of 37 patents himself, Darrel Issa has been vigilant about protecting the intellectual property rights patent holders, patent product manufacturers and other entrepreneurs to help protect America?s position at the forefront of product innovation and creativity by USA industries. He sponsored House Bill HR 4954 to stop the abusive Qui-Tam false patent marking cases threatening to destroy many US small manufacturing and sales firms like Holdup Suspender Company. The statutes should allow only an actual harmed competitor from claiming Federal court damages and restraint of trade fines on phony patent # marked products. Heck it can't be easier to verify patents .. Google has a specific patent search feature at... http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search or 7 Million Patents via Google Patent Search API Jun 26, 2008 ... Google Patent Search The new Google Patent Search API is now available and lets you search over 7 million patents via code for free. We are campaigning to modified US Patent marking laws. See our steps to change Patent laws and quash these disastrous job killing laws suits... We need a public outcry now the GOP recovered control of the people's House in Congress. Pressure along with us the various media outlets shinning a light on these shameful destructive job killing law suits. Hopefully Rep Issa, John Conyers, and new House leadership will fast track the above bills to cure these frivolous expired patent # suits is just wishful thinking they can change their anti-business way. Holdup Suspender Company, like hundreds of other US businesses caught by these greed driven shysters and their Congressional and Justice Dept protectors, cannot survive the huge legal bills nor the multi-million dollar Fed Court judgements. Fines exceeding the gross suspender sales since the Company's founding. see http://www.falsemarking.net/district.php for upto date active cases and get real mad as these grow in 2011.
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Great link to the law firms hiding behind these so called Qui Tam (whistleblower) suits can be seen at http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202462844743 I have a small business web site client caught up in a false patent mis-marking suit filed on friday. Holdup Suspender Company holds multiple US patents for their unique suspender clips as shown at www.suspenders.com/patented.html Their original no-slip suspender clip patent was issued in 1990 (#4,901,408) has expired. They were granted and new improved design patent granted in March 2010 (D619,495 S), but have clips marked with the expired patent # on USA made suspenders in stock, on customers and at retailer stores.
Darn shame they face potential closure as the very active (10 cases) Qui Tam and attorney pliantiffs in Ohio want $500 bucks per mis-marked suspender clip, their domain, and replacement of all suspenders marked with the expired patent number. They have 6 temp people filing off patent numbers this Labor Day weekend as the new replacement clip stock, with new patent #, is in limited supply. NIce move by the Obama small biz friendly administration and Eric Holder Attorney General to actually participate in suing these family run tax paying entrepenuers hopefully ranking in their life savings and forcing closure of their businesses.
Amazing... from Brooks Bros. Bow Ties to Holdup Suspenders the wannabee King with no clothes jumps ugly on every USA manufacturer who are inventive enough to have patented products. **Incidently every judge in every courtroom are using court reporting equipment and computer harddrives mis-marked with expired patent numbers so they should recuse themselves ... or get some common sense.