[IP] Patent Pirates vs. Patent Trolls
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From: RJR PIA <RJR@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: February 11, 2006 8:35:16 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Patent Pirates vs. Patent Trolls
Deep pocketed corporations have a bad habit of killing off inventor
created startups in order to avoid having to pay for the use of
other's intellectual property. Over the past fifteen years there has
been a quiet movement of inventors banding together to share tactical
information. As a result more inventors are surviving and in at
least some cases prevailing over the large companies in patent disputes.
As a result, those companies have launched massive public relations
campaigns to smear the victims of their not so reputable conduct as
abusers of the patent system and as patent "trolls". As a result of
this rather nasty campaign inventors now often refer to predatory
large corporations whose business model is to use abusive litigation
to bankrupt inventors as "Patent Pirates". Patent pirates
The important point of all this is that inventor-entrepreneurs have
community ties and create jobs and tax base. When a patent pirate
gets away with stomping those inventors the community loses far more
than the inventor. The community loses because patent pirates ship
the value of the innovation out of America.
My first post on this topic is to expose the myth of patent trolls,
for those enforcement entities which patent pirates like to call
trolls are really angles riding to the rescue of inventors who are
being abused by patent pirates.
Ronald J Riley, President
Professional Inventors Alliance
www.PIAUSA.org
RJR (at) PIAUSA.org
Change "at" to @
RJR Direct # (202) 318-1595
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http://www.piausa.org/patent_reform/articles/
08/04/2005 - Raymond P. Niro
THE PATENT TROLL MYTH
Trolls are mythological figures in Scandinavian folklore. So
what’s the truth about so-called “patent trolls”? Let’s start at the
beginning. In July 2001, Brenda Sandburg did an article for an
American Lawyer publication called The Recorder. It was titled
“Trolling for Dollars.” On page one was a picture of Intel’s then
Assistant General Counsel, Peter Detkin, holding a troll; below him
was a picture of Jerry Hosier next to one of his five airplanes. On
the second page, there was a picture of me with the caption: “Patent
Power.” The accompanying article began with the “once upon a time”
claim that: More...
Ronald J Riley, President
Professional Inventors Alliance
www.PIAUSA.org
RJR (at) PIAUSA.org
Change "at" to @
RJR Direct # (202) 318-1595
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