Comments on: Leahy and Hatch on Patent Reform Act of 2007 – we’re making progress beacuse no one is entirely happy http://promotetheprogress.com/leahy-and-hatch-on-patent-reform-act-of-2007-were-making-progress-beacuse-no-one-is-entirely-happy/656/ Informed and insightful analysis of patent law issues Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:32:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dinnerbell http://promotetheprogress.com/leahy-and-hatch-on-patent-reform-act-of-2007-were-making-progress-beacuse-no-one-is-entirely-happy/656/comment-page-1/#comment-211 dinnerbell Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:21:13 +0000 http://promotetheprogress.com/blog/?p=656#comment-211 please see http://www.piausa.org/ for a different/opposing view on patent reform please see http://www.piausa.org/ for a different/opposing view on patent reform

]]> By: dinnerbell http://promotetheprogress.com/leahy-and-hatch-on-patent-reform-act-of-2007-were-making-progress-beacuse-no-one-is-entirely-happy/656/comment-page-1/#comment-208 dinnerbell Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:18:10 +0000 http://promotetheprogress.com/blog/?p=656#comment-208 All this talk of a need for patent “deform” is but a red herring fabricated by a handful of large tech firms as a diversion away from the real issue...that they have no valid defense against charges they are using other parties' technologies without permission. It’s not about reforming the system. It’s about legalizing theft! The objective of these large firms is not to fix the patent system, but to destroy it or pervert it so only they may obtain and defend patents; to make it a sport of kings. Patents are a threat against their market dominance. They would rather use their size alone to secure their market position. Patents of others, especially small entities, jeopardize that. For example, the proposed change to eliminate the use of injunctions would only further encourage blatant infringement. Any large company would merely force you to make them take a license. They would have little to lose. Everything would be litigated to death -if a small entity can come up with the cash to pursue. That's what these large multinationals are betting against. Sadly, some legislators and other parties have been duped by these slick firms and their well greased lawyers, lobbyists (some disguised as trade or public interest groups), and stealth PR firms. Don't be surprised to find the Washington lobbyist scandal spreading into the patent deform proceedings. When corporate America agrees to not use our inventions without consent, American inventors and small entities will agree to stop suing them. All this talk of a need for patent “deform” is but a red herring fabricated by a handful of large tech firms as a diversion away from the real issue…that they have no valid defense against charges they are using other parties’ technologies without permission. It’s not about reforming the system. It’s about legalizing theft!

The objective of these large firms is not to fix the patent system, but to destroy it or pervert it so only they may obtain and defend patents; to make it a sport of kings. Patents are a threat against their market dominance. They would rather use their size alone to secure their market position. Patents of others, especially small entities, jeopardize that. For example, the proposed change to eliminate the use of injunctions would only further encourage blatant infringement. Any large company would merely force you to make them take a license. They would have little to lose. Everything would be litigated to death -if a small entity can come up with the cash to pursue. That’s what these large multinationals are betting against.

Sadly, some legislators and other parties have been duped by these slick firms and their well greased lawyers, lobbyists (some disguised as trade or public interest groups), and stealth PR firms. Don’t be surprised to find the Washington lobbyist scandal spreading into the patent deform proceedings.

When corporate America agrees to not use our inventions without consent, American inventors and small entities will agree to stop suing them.

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