Congress Moves the [Crush Small Business] Innovation Act H.R. 3309 to Senate - Bill Will Allow Corporations to Infringe Patents of Small Business with Impunity

Congress Moves the [Crush Small Business] Innovation Act H.R. 3309 to Senate

Bill Will Allow Corporations to Infringe Patents of Small Business with Impunity

In the Dark Ages, those who spoke against the conquerors of their lands were routinely tortured or executed. Now a similar fate, financially, awaits those inventors and small businesses that try to enforce their patent rights against corporations infringing their patents.

In a classic case of blaming the victim, Congress, rather than addressing the near hopeless and debilitating battles small business must risk in order to stand against corporations infringing their patents and technology, attacks the last refuge of inventors: non-practicing entities that offer inventors the only chance of monetizing their patents after their technology, ideas, and inventions are stolen. The bill, named the Innovation Act in a classic example of Orwellian double-speak, is H.R. 3309.

Innovation without capital and markets is sterile; debasing the value of patents further isolates patent holders from the capital needed to enter markets. By galvanizing NPE's, the bill attacks innovation itself not already joined to capital and markets, and therefore the true and original purpose of the patent system itself.

It is well known that corporations ignore review of competing patents for new products in order to avoid claims of willful infringement. Congress now writes legislation that those few inventors daring enough and able to raise a hand against the corporations making billions of dollars by infringing their patents, on top of facing nearly impossible legal fees, legal tactics, interminable delays, and specious re-exams, should be punished for their insubordination. Inventors failing to prove their case will face awards requiring them to pay the fees of defendants.

Any basic analysis shows non-practicing entities are not the problem; they are merely the visible symptom of a court system and laws that already favor capital and markets over patents and innovation. In fact, infringement is so rampant, corporations assume it as an ordained right, in the spirit of the fabled prima notte of medieval times. Even small businesses attempting in good faith to offer licenses are often attacked with lawsuits for declaratory relief. To corporations entering and controlling markets, the patents of inventors and small business are simply a nuisance.; the chance of any small business mounting a successful challenge is so slim, even with a clear case of infringement, that corporations routinely infringe and await the few and far between lawsuits.

Further, in complete ignorance of the software industry and software patents, the bill proposes to defeat essential discovery needed to prove infringements, requiring inventors to operate blindly against deeply hidden software processes while attempting to fulfill impossible requirements of specificity prior to discovery. Unfortunately, even the Patent office, already besieged by corporate lobbyists is under extreme pressure to eviscerate the minute number of patents that are challenged in inter partes review, as though that somehow makes the remaining 99% of patents more valid.

One pundit has noted that the disproportion of wealth in our society is now greater than the time of Louis the XVI, just before that noble personage famously lost his head.

If there ever was an ill-conceived and prejudicial piece of legislation it is H.R. 3309, which in effect, and in the final analysis, will defeat the very purpose of the patent system and its constitutional underpinning by making it impossible, realistically, for inventors to enforce their patent rights

Small businesses and patent owners should contact their senators before their years of hard work are nullified by H.R. 3309 and its corporate sponsors.

Archaeologists Find Smartphones without Mindports® at Ancient Dumpsite

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Archaeologists Find Smartphones without Mindports® at Ancient Dumpsite

Early Devices Show Primitive Beginnings of Mobile Phone Interface

Silveira de Baixo, Portugal, June 7, 2425 - Archaeologists today reported the discovery of early smartphones without Mindports® in an ancient dumpsite in the mountain village of Silveira de Baixo in Portugal. The primitive communication devices date back to the early 21st century. It is believed that users of the devices actually made diverse odd gestures, including scrolling vertically and horizontally, pinching, and sizing of their screens in an attempt to scan for navigation links on what was then called the mobile web. Alternately, it appears they also would peck on their screens at symbols resembling ancient Sumerian hieroglyphics or speak repeatedly into their device to navigate to websites.

It is not known why these early users would attempt to navigate their smartphones without mindports. The practice significantly slowed user's interaction with the mobile web and the diggers speculated not without some humor that the practice may itself have been the reasons the smartphones were discarded in favor of mindports-equipped devices. Another archaeologist suggested an ancient prejudice for the form of the written page first established more than five thousand years ago by the stone tablets of Hammurabi as the reason mindports were not created and adopted until the second decade of the twenty-first century. He suggested that form of information presentation may have become deeply ingrained into human nature through the physical acts of chiseling cuneiform into stone or clay tablets, and later, pressing hand-carved wooden blocks onto sheets of paper.

When asked for their comments, Mindports executives simply smiled, and continued their effortless mobile web navigation. Those remaining manufacturers of the early devices were not available for comment, although many of those companies' executives were themselves spotted discretely navigating mindports. Today, no major corporations, on or off planet, are known to exist that have not adopted Mindports® advanced intelligent information discovery and integration.

Mindports® is a four hundred and eleven year old company presently based in the Mars colony at Aurorae Sinus. Mindports is credited with advancing the web page from the five thousand year old text and image page paradigm to modern geometric navigation and discovery. It appeared first only on HTML5 compliant browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. around the year A.D. 2015. www.mindports.com