Patent Pirates vs. Patent Trolls

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: RJR PIA <RJR () PIAUSA org>
Date: February 11, 2006 8:35:16 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
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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