You say "stupid smart lawyers they are preventing mankind for evolving at a fast rate".
Many people like to bash lawyers but how many have thought about what we had before the idea of having lawyers represent each side. Before law as we know it you have trial by combat or a sovereign deciding who was right. It was brutal.
So whatever the deficiencies of our law system are it is still far better than what proceeded it.
As to "preventing mankind from evolving", that is also flat out wrong. What separates humanity for other life forms is our ability to pass on what has been learned in written form. This is exactly what a patent does. It discloses the invention. In the past you had guilds who kept their trade secret. This limited the ability of other to advance the art.
With patents the art is disclosed for all to see, and twenty years after filing (sooner in some cases) anyone can use the discovery for nothing. No one would disclose their inventions if not for the government's guarantee that the inventor can profit from their discovery of up to twenty years in exchange for putting considerable effort and money into getting a patent. So it is a fact that patent attorneys play a significant role with inventors to advance mankind's knowledge base.
It is important that all of you recognize that when peoples' inventions are stolen by large corporations that all citizens of the inventor's country are harmed in the form of a lower standard of living. When each of you endorse large corporation's theft of patents you are hurting your own long term interests.
Part of the reason for your misperception of the situation is that a group of not so savory corporations got together over the last few years and conducted a massive media campaign to paint the inventors whom they have victimized as bad players. Recently they have gone public as the "Coalition for Patent Fairness". We call them the Coalition for Patent Piracy. Some members of the coalition started as innovative companies but lost their edge a decade or two ago, while others like Microsoft or Dell with their incendiary notebooks have never been especially innovative. What they are is rather efficient predators. So as I see it the Coalition for Patent Piracy is made up of two major groups, one of which are washed up tech companies and the other are banks and insurance hucksters.
Ronald J Riley, President Professional Inventors Alliance www.PIAUSA.org RJR"at"PIAUSA.org Change "at" to @ RJR Direct # (202) 318-1595
and:
Ronald J Riley, Exec. Dir. InventorEd, Inc. www.InventorEd.org RJR"at"InvEd.org Change "at" to @
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You say "stupid smart lawyers they are preventing mankind for evolving at a fast rate".
Many people like to bash lawyers but how many have thought about what we had before the idea of having lawyers represent each side. Before law as we know it you have trial by combat or a sovereign deciding who was right. It was brutal.
So whatever the deficiencies of our law system are it is still far better than what proceeded it.
As to "preventing mankind from evolving", that is also flat out wrong. What separates humanity for other life forms is our ability to pass on what has been learned in written form. This is exactly what a patent does. It discloses the invention. In the past you had guilds who kept their trade secret. This limited the ability of other to advance the art.
With patents the art is disclosed for all to see, and twenty years after filing (sooner in some cases) anyone can use the discovery for nothing. No one would disclose their inventions if not for the government's guarantee that the inventor can profit from their discovery of up to twenty years in exchange for putting considerable effort and money into getting a patent. So it is a fact that patent attorneys play a significant role with inventors to advance mankind's knowledge base.
It is important that all of you recognize that when peoples' inventions are stolen by large corporations that all citizens of the inventor's country are harmed in the form of a lower standard of living. When each of you endorse large corporation's theft of patents you are hurting your own long term interests.
Part of the reason for your misperception of the situation is that a group of not so savory corporations got together over the last few years and conducted a massive media campaign to paint the inventors whom they have victimized as bad players. Recently they have gone public as the "Coalition for Patent Fairness". We call them the Coalition for Patent Piracy. Some members of the coalition started as innovative companies but lost their edge a decade or two ago, while others like Microsoft or Dell with their incendiary notebooks have never been especially innovative. What they are is rather efficient predators. So as I see it the Coalition for Patent Piracy is made up of two major groups, one of which are washed up tech companies and the other are banks and insurance hucksters.
Ronald J Riley, President
Professional Inventors Alliance
www.PIAUSA.org
RJR"at"PIAUSA.org
Change "at" to @
RJR Direct # (202) 318-1595
and:
Ronald J Riley, Exec. Dir.
InventorEd, Inc.
www.InventorEd.org
RJR"at"InvEd.org
Change "at" to @