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• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Obviousness is easy to determine

  "Following on Brad Templeton's idea, obviousness is easy to determine.
  
  Obvious solutions come quickly. Non-obvious ones take a long time."
  
  Not so. Study Farnsworth. It is a fact that many inventions come in a flash of genius.
  
  Following on Brad Templeton's idea, obviousness is easy to determine.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 12:08pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Trade Secrets vs Patents

  Microsoft is fighting a losing battle. They spend a fortune on R&D, get lots of incremental improvement patents yet still miss the boat on the most important inventions.
  
  In fact, it was Microsoft which announced they wanted patent deform which started the current Congressional battle. A week or so later IBM joined them.
  
  Big companies are trying to turn the patent system into an exclusive sport which serves only their interests.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 12:01pm

  Re: Re: Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious

  No, patents encourage people to fully disclose their inventions.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 11:59am

  Re: Re: Chicken / Re:

  "Either way, if you ARE just speaking as an individual, posting your affiliations as you do is a shady move. You invoke them not as disclosure, but as your signature line to add power to your argument, and to link-bait back to the sites."
  
  Just because I found an organization does not mean that I speak for everyone associated with the organization.
  
  For example, I or a small group associated with one of our organizations may write a position letter. To speak for the organization that letter then goes to the directors for approval. Then and only then the document is official.
  
  I do not have time to run every post past the directors, and therefore those posts represent just my opinion. Generally many people in the organization will agree with me but not all. In fact I have yet to meet an inventor who is not very opinionated and strong willed.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 11:50am

  Re: Re: TechDIRT Weasels / Re:

  "What about basic humanism? What incentive is there to keep knowledge a secret when it can benefit your community?"
  
  Look up how guilds handled discoveries their members made. They carefully guarded them as secrets of the trade and as a result progress was very slow.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 11:44am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: stop the shilling!!!

  I am asking you again to do the same. Stop lying about inventors and the inventor community.
  
  We invest years, often a decade or more conceiving our inventions. We accept the contract which is the law of the land to teach our inventions via a patent(s). There is considerable cost involved in teaching beyond the act of inventing.
  
  Government promises inventors exclusive rights to their inventions for twenty years from the date of filing. It can easily take a decade to capitalize on that promise.
  
  After we get a patent the sharks come out in force and try to steal the fruits of our labor. They commit every type of fraud you can imagine to cover their tracks. They do their best to bankrupt us through abuse of the process of law. They hire PR people to smear inventors both individually and collectively. They sponsor academics to carry their water, and they even hire people to blog.
  
  It would be an understatement to say that TechDIRT's position on patents is extreme. Everything in my experience has taught me to follow the money.
  
  But then over a decade to butting heads with disreputable patent pirating companies has played a role in shaping my worldview.
  
  So Mike, if you want to understand what makes independent inventors tick, get a copy of the Flash of Genius movie and watch it. I knew the inventor, Bob Kearns well. Then get a copy of Nick Taylor's book about the Laser, and read a bit about Farnsworth. Then maybe we can have a productive discussion which just might lead to some common ground.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 11:02am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious

  The issue is where your bread is being buttered.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 11:00am

  Re: Re: Chicken / Re:

  Mr. Farris,
  
  Our web sites are well established and we do not need the links to improve ranking or to bring those who know what they are looking for to our web site.
  
  I have pointed out before that the primary reason for posting to TechDIRT is that their positions are so outragious on patent issues, their ignorance about the nature of inventing as a profession is so profound that they draw the attention and ire of inventors.
  
  It is those inventors who I want to engage. We are fighting an all out war with both invention promotion frauds and thieving large companies. The more inventors and other parties who are concerned about long term prosperity whom we can engage the better. They are my target audience. Most certainly I have ZERO chance of educating anti-patent TechDIRT members.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2009 @ 10:49am

  Re: Re: Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious

  The party posting as William Scott Esq. was exposed long ago as a disbarred atty-lobbyist. Of coarse that is not his real name. It is virtually certain that he was one of the invention promotion fraudsters busted in Project Mousetrap by the Federal Trade Commission.
  
  I have said this many times before but it bears repeating, invention promoters are not very bright. They are high pressure sales people and that is the limit of their skills. They are clueless about how to market an invention.
  
  I and our organizations played a role in getting the FTC to revisit and review current activities of a number of the parties in the Project Mousetrap action. Subsequently, one was on the wrong end of a $26 million dollar award, another was assessed $60 million and his business placed in Federal receivership and others are the subjects of ongoing investigations. Needless to say, these crooks are not happy campers.
  
  I started advocating for inventor's rights in 1990. Since 1990 I have donated my time without compensation. I was able to do this because of royalties from my patents. From 1990 to about 2006 the vast majority of overhead was funded personally.
  
  It has only been since 2006 that we solicited donations and we fully disclose to the IRS as required by law. We are not going to disclose names of donors and service providers publicly and especially not to anyone associated with invention promotion fraud.
  
  I most certainly agree that inventors should seek qualified counsel on legal matters. But it is a fact that few people in the legal profession understand the big picture of how an inventor should proceed. In fact there is no single path to success which is correct, every situation is unique and in the end inventors must make these decisions for themselves.
  
  The best way for inventors to learn about their possible course of action is to network with other commercially successful inventors. That is what my advocacy work has been about, helping inventors network with others who have already walked the path, and just as important is helping them avoid common pitfalls such as invention promotion fraudsters and helping them avoid common pitfalls in their dealings with large corporations.
  
  Those pitfalls include avoiding giving patent pirating large companies an excuse to bring a declaratory judgment lawsuit against the inventor (typical cost $100,000 and up) and helping inventors find effective and honest patent enforcement partners (some of whom are as bad as the big patent pirating companies).
  
  The party posting as William Scott has used many aliases, often to respond to and try to reinforce their own posts. They even created a blog in my name and have posted to Internet using my name. This is not a surprise since these are the same people who are stealing between $10,000 and $50,000 from aspiring inventors. Collectively this relatively small group of fraudsters are fleecing people for over $500 million a year. Some of the ringleaders in these fraudulent operations are making $10-$20 MILLION a year.
  
  The inventor community has helped put a number of these con artists in jail. Others will be joining them.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: How Patents Are Harming Small Companies Too

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 05:31pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: how about them apples?

  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.

• On the post: How Patents Are Harming Small Companies Too

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 05:21pm

  Re: Re: TechDIRT hosting ads for invention promoters.

  And why does TechDIRT allow such ads? They do have the ability to block them.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 04:54pm

  TechDIRT Weasels / Re:

  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.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 04:43pm

  Re: Re: stop the shilling!!!

  "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.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 04:32pm

  Chicken / Re:

  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.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 04:11pm

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• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 04:10pm

  Re: Re: Every aspiring Infringer Claims Obvious

  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.

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  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 04:06pm

  Re: Re: Re: Trade Secrets vs Patents

  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.

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  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 03:58pm

  Re: Fix The Courts.

  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.

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  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 03:39pm

  Lemley is just another academic feeding at corp trough

  His connections to members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness & Piracy are well known.
  
  Ronald J. Riley,
  
  Speaking only on my own behalf.
  President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
  Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
  Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
  President - Alliance for American Innovation
  Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
  Washington, DC
  Direct (810) 597-0194 - (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 8 pm EST.

• On the post: Just Because Something's New Doesn't Mean It's Not Obvious

  

  Ronald J Riley ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2009 @ 03:36pm

  Re: Re: Obvious it ain't

  "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.

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