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1. Comment - It has come to this: A claim that patent reform threatens the environment

   (Mar 13, 2009 - 8:59 PM)

   I am a commercially successful inventor, and like many inventors I have seen big companies steal most of the value of my inventions. Even more important than what they did to me with such theft is that it resulted about 95% of the value and in thousands of jobs over the 17 year life of my patents being transferred outside America.
   
   American ingenuity played a huge role in our country’s staggering success. Today our economy is in a shambles in large part due to disreputable big business actions. The culprits are banking, insurance, and transnational companies which seek short term profits at any cost.
   
   These are the same people promoting Patent Deform. Their goal is to make the patent system a king’s sport which only serves their interests. They have created two coalitions which are working to make the patent system dysfunctional. One calls itself the Coalition for Patent Fairness, all they want is the right to take other’s inventions. The other is the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform, a group which wants to preserve the value of their own patents but otherwise disadvantage independent, small business, and academic inventors.
   
   There is nothing in the Patent Deform bill which will improve our patent system or serve America’s economic interests. What patent Deform would do is cement the position of large companies, allow them to take other’s inventions with impunity, and destroy the ability of American inventors to create new jobs and prosperity for all.
   
   Ronald J. Riley,
   
   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 9 pm EST.

2. Comment - Sony sued over Blu-ray patents

   (Aug 29, 2008 - 9:48 PM)

   Here is an analogy to help everyone understand the essence of the patent wars. Lets say that you lease a piece of land for twenty years and that you build a building on that land for rental purposes with the expectation of being able to lease it for say ten to fifteen years. Then a number of really big companies come along and occupies that building without paying. After spending money to lease the land, build the building, and trying to evict the squatter
   
   This is roughly the same situation as we have with a patent. The inventor invests time and money to produce the invention and then more time and and money to teach that invention via a patent. In exchange they get a twenty year lease from the date the patent is filed.
   
   Remember that just as it takes time to build the building in the above example that all the patent processing time (which can easily be 3-15 or more years) comes out of the leasable time.
   
   It is not unusual for large companies to all squat on an inventor's patent rights, refusing to pay while they are making gobs of money which should go to the inventor.
   
   Since inventors cannot afford justice they seek either a buyer or a partner for their distressed property who can afford to extract rent and/or evict the squatter.
   
   A big part of rather or not a buyer or a partner can be found is how fast the courts will act on evicting and extracting payment from the squatters.
   
   This is the reason that victims of patent piracy go to the Eastern District of Texas. The court does not allow an endless stream of delaying tactics as do many of the courts which patent pirates favor. In the Eastern District I would guess that the typical time from start to finish is five years. Other courts may take two or three times as long.
   
   Justice delayed is justice denied, especially when it is a small and fairly new company which cannot grow and prosper because their property is being stolen by a large patent pirate.
   
   All this talk about patent trolls has been driven by lying, cheating, disreputable transnational companies. These are companies who either never were inventors of anything significant or who have lost the ability to to produce significant inventions as they grew into big companies.
   
   While they are incapable of inventing anything worthwhile they are very capable of inventing propaganda about "trolls" and conducting massive public relations campaigns to cover their tracks.
   
   They even have a trade association of like minded patent pirating companies who go by the name of the Coalition for Patent Fairness. Like most big business fronts their name implies something very much at odds with what they really are about.
   
   Ronald J. Riley,
   
   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 (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.

3. Comment - Blockbuster, Netflix Call Patent Truce

   (Jun 28, 2007 - 5:02 PM)

   1) An inventor creates a new business, accepts the contract to discloses at great cost the best implementation of their invention in exchange for the twenty year patent term. Then some scum bag parasitic patent pirating opportunist comes along and steals their property.
   
   2) Patents have a description which is just a broad overview, and then they have claims which are very specific. Subtle nuances of claim wording play a huge role in the actual scope of a patent's coverage. I have yet to see anyone who is not very familiar with claim wording and case law who understands the scope of an invention. What I do see a great deal of is people reading the broad description and grossly misinterpreting what the patent is about.
   
   Ronald J. Riley,
   President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
   Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
   Washington, DC
   Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.

4. Comment - AMD Claims of Intel Benchmarks 'Not Ethical' Scrutinized

   (Mar 2, 2007 - 8:56 PM)

   I am inclined to believe AMD's allegation that Intel is an unethical company. They have long had a reputation as a company who takes great liberties with inventor's work. They are a founding member of the Coalition for Patent Piracy, while they call it the Coalition for Patent Fairness the truth of the matter is that their idea of fair is getting other's intellectual property for nothing. The Coalition is well known by both independent inventors and large companies for an unprecedented level of arrogance and lack of morals or ethics. This is easy to verify, just review their litigation histories.
   
   For a great example of the real Intel see Ray Niro's expose' at http://www.piausa.org/pa...ymond_p_niro_08_04_2005.
   
   Now that is just one example of why Intel is a washed up tech company.
   
   Ronald J. Riley,
   
   President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
   Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
   Washington, DC
   Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.

5. Comment - Is Microsoft Attempting to Patent RSS?

   (Dec 22, 2006 - 6:48 PM)

   Don Dodge, director of business development for Microsoft's Emerging Business Team said "Microsoft is protecting itself against patent trolls," and said "Patents become poker chips in a high stakes game of legal lunacy". Don Dodge demonstrates the mentality of Microsoft.
   
   Invention FUELS our economy. It always has! Our founding fathers recognized that it was so important that they spelled out inventors' rights as a PROPERTY right.
   
   Microsoft and their patent pirating allies know that they will not produce the important inventions. And they have learned the hard way that inventors will hold them accountable for theft.
   
   It is long past time that people recognize that the Coalition for Patent Fairness is really the Coalition for Patent Piracy --- parasites who should be held in check for the good of society.
   Ronald J. Riley,
   
   President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
   Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
   Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST