Comments on: Patent law changes power ahead in Congress

Sweeping changes to U.S. patent system have been approved by Senate and House committees. The high-tech industry is pleased, but others aren't.

[jrmitchell]

entrepreneurs response

First thank you for contacting me about my comments in Fortune and your
offer of assistance relative to the on going efforts to change our patent
system.

After visiting your web site it appears that your group is only composed of
large companies. Where are the entrepreneurs that are creating the jobs here
in America through innovation and their patents? I do not agree with your
ideas to make our patent system like Europe. When ever venture capitalists
talk to entrepreneurs their first question is "What are your competitors
barrier to entry" They want to see patents that provide some reasonable
expectations for being successful. Who will fund the new ideas created by
the little guy?

Many of these changes favor the large companies who can afford the legal
fees that the new proposal will require in defense of the patent owner.

Our patent system was established to support the inventor not the large
companies. The very companies you represent were started by entrepreneurs
whose only protection were the patents they held. Your 40 members are large
corporations run by people who never started their own company or had to
compete with the giants of industry. How can they speak about innovation
when they have to purchase new technology from entrepreneurs who out
innovate them and patent these innovated transformations.

Look at the Fortune 500 list today and see the changes entrepreneurs have
created. Where would Microsoft,Apple, Intel, Cisco, Google, Yahoo be today
if not for their patents? These companies have replaced many of the former
members of this elite club.

When America is loosing many of our industries to the outsourcing of
traditional American jobs the only thing keeping us alive are the
entrepreneurs who create new technology, get a patent, get funding and are
then are able to hire employees. Government reports explain that
entrepreneurs are the only thing keeping us competitive globally.

No sir we entrepreneurs are not willing to hand over the only protection our
forefathers provided for us when they established their idea of a fair and
just patent system dedicated to the inventor not the corporation.They
rejected the European system which favored the rich in favor of one that
favored the inventor.

When I look at many of the 40 members I see companies being run by CEOs who
only perform half of their responsibilities. A CEO has two responsibilities.
The first one is being able to increase their companies business through
growth. Their second responsibility is to remain profitable. Downsizing
occurs when a company is loosing market share and the CEO is not able to
grow his business.

In my opinion downsizing is exactly the opposite of what CEOs have been
chartered to achieve. The natural goal for almost any business is upsizing.

Downsizing programs to me are clear admissions of the CEOs failure.

If I misunderstood what your organization is about please enlighten me.Below is what I was responding to.

James Fuller
Managing Director
Public Strategies, Inc.
607 14th Street, N.W. Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
Direct: [phone]
Cell: [phone]
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Yahoo IM: Jamesfullerindc
http://www.pstrategies.com
http:/www.wpp.com

[billmosby]

How many software patents are novel and nonobvious?

Every time I have read software patents in my field (computer
graphics), I have encountered claims to ideas that I have then
easily and quickly found in the literature of the field dating from
years to decades prior to the filing of the patent. The assignees
of the patents are typically large companies. The most recent
example I have seen is patent number 7028023, entitled "Linked
list". Its first claim is for a two-way linked list. I didn't even have
to look that one up, as it has been a well-known technique for
decades. As for its later claims on multiple linked lists, I found a
paper from a couple of decades ago concerning simulations of
complex processes which describes a programming technique
which uses multiple linked lists. So the claims are not novel. I
also think they are obvious, but that's just me. The assignee is
LSI Logic Corporation in this case.

The one thing I most hope will come out of patent reform is an
inexpensive way to prevent patents like this from issuing. Just a
simple process to help the PTO find the relevant literature, in
case an "inventor" or his lawyers haven't got time to do a proper
search before spending money to file the patent application.

Let's have real innovation protected strongly and stop this
business of patenting everything programmers think up on the
spur of the moment, a process I liken to trying to copyright all
the words in the dictionary.

[ewelch]

Losing, not LOOSING

That is all.

[zolyfarkas]

protection our forefathers provided?

"as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously"

-- Benjamin Franklin

Not entrepreneurship is driving the economy. It's greed that is driving it ...

[hammc]

Proving software violation with DMCA around

Could you be violating the DMCA in your process of proving if a piece of software is violating patents on a certain component ??

[sismoc]

The Role Of The Patent Office Should Be...

The role of the Patent Office should be to screen out and disallow almost all patent applications.

If 99% of all patents were disallowed patent trolls and questionable patents would not exist.

Today almost all patents are NOT novel, unique or non-obvious. Patents are being granted for things that are trivial, incremental, and laughably obvious.

Start by making a patent almost impossible to get, that will insure that a patent is appropriate and has value.

[billmosby]

I second that.

We already have enough patents on golf grip techniques,
techniques for using a child's swingset, linked lists, manipulating a
camera object in a 3-D model, manipulating a light source object
in a 3-D model, using the DeCasteljau algorithm plus a graphics
processor to evaluate Bezier curves, etc. I wish I were making all of
the above examples up, but I'm not.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Stuck in normality

media compression:

was that the women in the red dress you were looking at neo
"i was just"
look again

Animal life:

ummmmmmmm
sexy 6
ummmmmmmm
sexy 6
ummmmmmmm

plant life:

sexy 6 ummmmmmmm
ummmmmmmmm
sexy 6 ummmmmmmm
ummmmmmmmm

brainwashing:

ummmmmmmmm
5
"uuuuuur"
5
ummmmmmm

mind research:

ummmmm sexy6 um sexy6 "what the"
ummmmm "im gonna get you"
sexy 6 ummm sexy 6
ummmmm "i mean it this time"
9.2
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

fractals:

my thats a pretty little pattern that flower is

economics:

shall i add that new thing to my stock or shall i just bump the price up here. Oh i've gotta sell this thing. Oh maybe i'll try adding that thing to my stock.

the universe:

wooooooo hold it together boys keep what you can
we're fading
wooooooo hold it together boys keep what you can
we're fading

that beep aljbra:

if you do this here you gotta do it there
ok al i'm geting what your saying by why all the rest of this stuff wheres the numbers

you know that big field of numbers we just forced our secutary to type in all last weekend

al your a beeeep

rienmans genious maths:

wow i finally got this log to follow this line but their slipping apart.
Thats ok i'll just frative this off here and hey presto it all looks kind of normal again and by the time they work out im speaking a load of crap i'll be long dead.

Eienstine:

there i was smoking pot reading some patents and it all started to become relative like the whole of time and space man, it was a 4 dimensional experience then some one turned the light on and it hit me.
you know not like wibbling at me like it hit me.
Arhh you mean like e=mc^2
Dude it's like you read me mind