Just because they call it ‘reform’ doesn’t mean it is.
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‘The problem is that some property owners are bad actors, opportunistic exploiters of a troubled system’
Consider the source of this statement. The author is a PR consultant.
He only says what he is paid to. We expect if you lift the rock you’ll find the same large multinational invention thieves at work as we customarily find -hiding behind yet another paid puppet whose job it is to spread lies and distortions. There’s a reason why they never give facts to back up their bold accusations about bad patents and bad behavior by inventors and other small entities…they don’t exist. Don’t believe the lies of thieves.
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‘small companies…are being bullied…into paying thousands of dollars to patent trolls’
So say Chinese and large multinational invention thieves and their paid puppets. Don’t believe the lies of thieves.
Take a look at the web site for this group.
http://www.unitedforpatentreform.com/patent-reform
Other than a few window dressing ‘small entities’ you will find it is backed and led by many of the same large multinationals who have been in league for several years to destroy or twist the patent system so only they may use it. Then they can rob and crush their small competitors at will.
The patent system now teeters on the brink of lawlessness. Call it what you will…patent hoarder, patent troll, non-practicing entity, shell company, etc. It all means one thing: “we’re using your invention and we’re not going to stop or pay”. It’s a pure red herring by large invention thieves and their paid puppets to kill any inventor support system. As Mark Twain said, ‘truth is not hard to kill, and (that) a lie well told is immortal’. Those who use the amorphous phrase ‘patent troll’ expose themselves as thieves, duped, or doped and perpetuate the lie.
For the last several years the Chinese and large multinationals have been ransacking and looting small American entities taking everything they can carry. Those are the same multinationals who when they cant export jobs, import workers and artificially inflate their employed Americans. The fact is, many of the giant multinationals and their puppets who defame inventors in this way themselves make no products in the US or create any American jobs and it is their continued blatant theft which makes it impossible for the true creators to do so. Invention thieves well know many inventors lack the resources to enforce their patent rights so their only recourse is to sell to others who do have the resources. Otherwise, large invention thieves just thumb their noses at you and steal at will.
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‘Companies could keep making money from infringed IP, and pay for the privilege later rather than sooner’
Actually, the affect is worse. Without the ability to stop infringers from using our inventions we have no chance of ever commercializing our inventions. If you’ve seen ‘Flash of Genius’, you’ll know what we mean. Most every inventor develops their product or process with the intent of commercializing. But when far larger competitors are permitted to use our inventions without our permission, they can easily outspend us and run any effort we may make into the ground. Permitting infringers to continue to use our inventions after infringement is found is just not right, it’s not fair, and by any rational and sensible reading of the Constitution it’s not lawful.
From ‘Section 8 – Powers of Congress:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;’
As James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 43 regarding constitutionally recognized rights of inventors and that portion of the Constitution as proposed, “The utility of the clause will scarcely be questioned. The copyright of authors has been solemnly adjudged, in Great Britain, to be a right of common law. The right to useful inventions seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors. The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of the individuals.”
Real reform is desperately needed to restore full rights back to inventors. We are now organizing in CA.
‘Carving out trolls and their overly litigious ways from real patent holders…’
As inventors will tell you, none of the invention thieves and their paid puppets who make these baseless accusations ever give examples of what they call a ‘patent troll’. The reason is simple…they don’t exist. Don’t believe the lies of thieves.
The patent system now teeters on the brink of lawlessness. Call it what you will…patent hoarder, patent troll, non-practicing entity, shell company, etc. It all means one thing: “we’re using your invention and we’re not going to stop or pay”. It’s a pure red herring by large invention thieves and their paid puppets to kill any inventor support system. As Mark Twain said, ‘truth is not hard to kill, and (that) a lie well told is immortal’. Those who use the amorphous phrase ‘patent troll’ expose themselves as thieves, duped, or doped and perpetuate the lie.
For the last several years the Chinese and large multinationals have been ransacking and looting small American entities taking everything they can carry. Those are the same multinationals who when they cant export jobs, import workers and artificially inflate their employed Americans. The fact is, many of the giant multinationals and their puppets who defame inventors in this way themselves make no products in the US or create any American jobs and it is their continued blatant theft which makes it impossible for the true creators to do so. Invention thieves well know many inventors lack the resources to enforce their patent rights so their only recourse is to sell to others who do have the resources. Otherwise, large invention thieves just thumb their noses at you and steal at will.
Prior to the Supreme Court case eBay v Mercexchange, small entities had a viable chance at commercializing their inventions. If the defendant was found guilty, an injunction was most always issued. Then the inventor small entity could enjoy the exclusive use of his invention in commercializing it. Unfortunately, injunctions are often no longer available to small entity inventors because of the eBay decision so we have no fair chance to compete with much larger entities who are now free to use our inventions -in other words, steal. Essentially, large infringers now have your gun and all the bullets. Worse yet, inability to commercialize means those same small entities will not be hiring new employees to roll out their products and services. And now those same parties who killed injunctions for small entities and thus blocked any fair chance at commercializing now complain that small entity inventors are not commercializing. They created the problem and now they want to blame small entities for it. What dissembling!
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‘they’re among the top job creators in the country’
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/its-time-for-the-gop-candidates-to-finally-debate-tech/
Sure, overseas. Here they have a net job loss. When large multinationals cant export jobs they import workers. Just because they call it patent reform doesn’t mean it is.
What is a patent troll? Don’t buy the lies and distortions of invention thieves.
The patent system now teeters on the brink of lawlessness. Call it what you will…patent hoarder, patent troll, non-practicing entity, shell company, etc. It all means one thing: “we’re using your invention and we’re not going to stop or pay”. It’s a pure red herring by large invention thieves and their paid puppets to kill any inventor support system. As Mark Twain said, ‘truth is not hard to kill, and (that) a lie well told is immortal’. Those who use the amorphous phrase ‘patent troll’ expose themselves as thieves, duped, or doped and perpetuate the lie.
For the last several years the Chinese and large multinationals have been ransacking and looting small American entities taking everything they can carry. Those are the same multinationals who when they cant export jobs, import workers and artificially inflate their employed Americans. The fact is, many of the giant multinationals and their puppets who defame inventors in this way themselves make no products in the US or create any American jobs and it is their continued blatant theft which makes it impossible for the true creators to do so. Invention thieves well know many inventors lack the resources to enforce their patent rights so their only recourse is to sell to others who do have the resources. Otherwise, large invention thieves just thumb their noses at you and steal at will.
Prior to the Supreme Court case eBay v Mercexchange, small entities had a viable chance at commercializing their inventions. If the defendant was found guilty, an injunction was most always issued. Then the inventor small entity could enjoy the exclusive use of his invention in commercializing it. Unfortunately, injunctions are often no longer available to small entity inventors because of the eBay decision so we have no fair chance to compete with much larger entities who are now free to use our inventions -in other words, steal. Essentially, large infringers now have your gun and all the bullets. Worse yet, inability to commercialize means those same small entities will not be hiring new employees to roll out their products and services. And now those same parties who killed injunctions for small entities and thus blocked any fair chance at commercializing now complain that small entity inventors are not commercializing. They created the problem and now they want to blame small entities for it. What dissembling!
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Generally, a troll is …
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/debunking-myths-about-patent-trolls/article/2575017
“Generally, a troll is a colloquial reference to those who seek to enforce patents opportunistically, relying on a weak or overbroad patent grant and often using a legal strategy typified by a demand letter offering settlement for relatively low dollars so a company will write a check instead of fighting on principle in court. It is a decades old, legally abusive shakedown of business, albeit with a new face.”
Bunk!
There’s a reason why those who make these sweeping accusations never support them with facts…they don’t exist. Rarely does anyone ever assert patents they know are questionable -for good reasons.
1. It can cost millions to assert. No one in their right mind would risk their hard fought capital on such a lark.
2. Contingent litigators, which is what most small entities use, are very picky about what cases they take because they don’t want to invest their time and money on a known loser and because if they did they would run the risk of being sanctioned by the court which could affect their reputation and all their future cases -so laws are already in place to deal with this highly unlikely situation.
The author is just another PR hack paid by large invention thieves. Don’t believe his lies.
http://www.ipi.org/authors/detail/bartlett-cleland
‘Bartlett Cleland is the managing principal at Madery Bridge Associates, LLC. Bartlett is also the policy counsel for the Institute for Policy Innovation.’
“one of the eight worst …”
“if he’d simply consulted Business Insider, which labels the UWM-affiliated entity he’s referring to — the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) — as one of the eight worst patent trolls in the market…”
Can you define ‘patent troll’? Can anyone?? This article fails to clearly outline anything of substance. It’s not about left or right, conservative or liberal -it’s about PROPERTY RIGHTS. Based on his bio, all this author knows about patents is…he doesn’t have any. In every way imaginable this writer appears a paid puppet for Chinese and large multinational invention thieves. Don’t believe their lies.
““Patent trolls” are entities that own patents that they use not to further innovation or manufacture a product but to conduct a kind of legal extortion racket. “
Letter to the Editor
NY Times
October 28, 2015
letters@nytimes.com
In reply to “The Patent Troll Smokescreen” of Oct 23
infringers and their paid puppets’ definition of ‘patent troll’:
anyone who sues us for stealing their invention
Can you say dissemble? All this talk about trolls and so called ‘patent reform’ is just spin control by large infringers and their paid puppets to cover up their theft. If you tell a lie often enough and can dupe others to repeat that lie, eventually it is accepted as fact. As Mark Twain said, ‘truth is not hard to kill, and (that) a lie well told is immortal’. Those who use the amorphous phrase ‘patent troll’ expose themselves as thieves, duped, or doped and perpetuate the lie.
It’s about property rights and jobs. When government fails to uniformly and justly enforce property rights they contribute to the wealth and power of the well placed few, suppress the ability and rights of the rest to make better lives for themselves and their families, and support giant monopolies that enslave and impoverish the public and commandeer the government.
The patent system now teeters on the brink of lawlessness. Call it what you will…patent hoarder, patent troll, non-practicing entity, shell company, etc. It all means one thing: “we’re using your invention and we’re not going to stop or pay”. It’s a pure red herring by large invention thieves and their paid puppets to kill any inventor support system. Their goal is to legalize theft. For the last several years now they have been ransacking and looting small entities taking everything they can carry. The fact is, many of the large multinationals and their puppets who defame inventors in this way themselves make no products in the US or create any American jobs and it is their continued blatant theft which makes it impossible for the true creators to do so. Invention thieves well know many inventors lack the resources to enforce their patent rights so their only recourse is to sell to or ally with others who do have the resources. Otherwise, large invention thieves just thumb their noses at you and steal at will. To infringers the only patents that are legitimate are their own -if they have any. Meanwhile, the huge multinationals ship more and more American’s jobs overseas.
Property rights should not only be for the rich and powerful -campaign contributors. America’s founders: Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and others felt so strongly about the rights of inventors that they recognized and affirmed those rights to their creations and discoveries into the Constitution.
From ‘Section 8 – Powers of Congress:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;’
They understood the trade off. Inventors are given a limited monopoly and in turn society gets the benefits of their inventions (telephone, computer, airplane, automobile, lighting, etc) into perpetuity and the jobs the commercialization of those inventions bring. For 200 years the patent system has not only fueled the US economy, but the world’s. If we weaken the patent system as have Congress and the courts since Mercexchange, we force inventors underground like Stradivarius (anyone know how to make a Stradivarius violin?) and in turn weaken our economy and job creation. Worse yet, we destroy the American dream -the ability to prosper from our ingenuity for the benefit of our families and communities. To kill or weaken the patent system is to kill all our futures. Show me a country with weak or ineffective property rights and I’ll show you a weak economy with high unemployment. If we cannot own the product of our minds or labors, what can we be said to truly own? Life and liberty are fundamentally tied to and in fact based on property rights. Our very lives are inseparably tied to our property.
Prior to the Supreme Court case eBay v Mercexchange, small entities had a viable chance at commercializing their inventions. If the defendant was found guilty, an injunction was most always issued. Then the inventor small entity could enjoy the exclusive use of his invention in commercializing it. Unfortunately, injunctions are often no longer available to small entity inventors because of the eBay decision so we have no fair chance to compete with much larger entities who are now free to use our inventions. Essentially, large infringers now have your gun and all the bullets. Worse yet, inability to commercialize means those same small entities will not be hiring new employees to roll out their products and services. And now those same parties who killed injunctions for small entities and thus blocked any fair chance at commercializing now complain that small entity inventors are not commercializing. They and SCOTUS (Supreme Court) created the problem and now they want to blame small entities for it. What dissembling! If you don’t like this state of affairs (your unemployment is running out), tell your Congress member. Then maybe we can get some sense back into the patent system with injunctions fully enforceable on all infringers by all patentees, large and small.
Those wishing to help fight big business giveaways should contact us as below and join the fight as we are building a network of inventors in each state and their allies to lobby Congress to restore property rights for all patent owners -large and small.
“…a court district that’s become notorious for its patent litigation”
The Eastern District of Texas is only notorious to infringers. Inventors respect any court which has the audacity to actually enforce property rights -regardless of wealth or influence. Is this the America of our founders?
Traditionally in western law plaintiffs in torts have been permitted to file wherever their rights have been trespassed. Present law as far as patent rights are concerned has deteriorated to where inventors must file in the defendants back yard -often times a place where inventors face an uphill battle. Not all courts are well versed in patent law and dislike these cases so they tend to have quick triggers on summary judgement. The other problem inventors face in those venues is the close connections between jurors, judges and defendants. Justice demands at least impartial venues. Texas is most always that as it lacks close ties with either side.
Overall this article lacks balance and objectivity. This is often the case from this reporter on patent issues. Is she objective, or does she have a self interest?
American Inventors for Justice 