Comments on: Inside Views: Interview With Chief Judge Paul R. Michel On US Patent Reform

By: Law and Apple: VirnetX reicht eine weitere Klage gegen Apple ein - Apfelnews

Law and Apple: VirnetX reicht eine weitere Klage gegen Apple ein - Apfelnews — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:37:14 +0000

[...] amerikanische Bundesrichter Paul R. Michel sagte letztes Jahr in einem Interview, dass das Problem mit Patenttrollen rettungslos überbewertet wird. Die meisten Klagen enden im [...]

By: Intellectual Property Management

Intellectual Property Management — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:39:58 +0000

Patents are important so that companies can protect their intellectual property. If patents were not allowed you would have countless companies that would piggy back every good idea and try to use it as their own. The market would become very diluted this way. People should be rewarded for their creativity, not punished.

By: patent litigation

patent litigation — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:17:51 +0000

The news of a delay (due to the debt ceiling crisis) should come as a relief to opponents of patent reform. It may be an unrealistic scenario, but considering the circumstances, perhaps Congress will decide that, in the interest of just getting some kind of patent reform passed, it will enact a bill that consists solely of provisions ending fee diversion and granting the USPTO fee-setting authority, and will completely drop all of the controversial provisions (preferably those in the House version). Unrealistic, yes; but we can hope.

By: Interview With Chief Judge Paul R. Michel On US Patent Reform « tto2newco | university startup ecosystem

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:20:59 +0000

[...] READ FULL INTERVIEW [web] [...]

By: Judge Michel Takes “Patent Reform” Bills To Task | Biotechnology Patent Law Blog | Patents4Life by Warren Woessner

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:01:38 +0000

[...] an interview with Intellectual Property Watch, former Chief Judge Paul R. Michel set forth, in one place, all of the most problematic (Ed.: read, [...]

By: staff

staff — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:22:20 +0000

“if the special interest provisions were deleted”

If all the special interest provisions were deleted from both bills, all that would be left is the saw dust they are packed in.

The bills are nothing less than another monumental federal giveaway for banks, huge multinationals, and China and an off shoring job killing nightmare for America.

Just because they call it “reform” doesn’t mean it is. Even the leading patent expert in China has stated the bill will help them steal our inventions. Who are the supporters of this bill working for??

Patent reform is a fraud on America. This bill will not do what they claim it will. What it will do is help large multinational corporations maintain their monopolies by robbing and killing their small entity and startup competitors (so it will do exactly what the large multinationals paid for) and with them the jobs they would have created. Yet small entities create the lion’s share of new jobs. According to recent studies by the Kauffman Foundation and economists at the U.S. Census Bureau, “startups aren’t everything when it comes to job growth. They’re the only thing.” This bill is a wholesale slaughter of US jobs. Those wishing to help in the fight to defeat this bill should contact us as below.

Small entities and inventors have been given far too little voice on this bill when one considers that they rely far more heavily on the patent system than do large firms who can control their markets by their size alone. The smaller the firm, the more they rely on patents -especially startups and individual inventors.

Please see http://truereform.piausa.org/ for a different/opposing view on patent reform.
http://docs.piausa.org/