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Senators Need to Respect and Protect the little guy
This bill appears to be a sweet deal for the large corporations. I myself have filed a patent, and one of the largest corporations in my particualr field of business immediately realized that my idea was very innovative, and they decided to start promoting it in their new product. That's right senators, they TOOK what was not theirs! So why would you allow someone to steal an idea, and then NOT allow the original inventor to be compensated monitarily for it? After all, DO CORPORATIONS NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO COME TO THE INVENTOR FIRST, AND ASK FOR THE PERMISSION TO USE THE INVENTION? SURE THEY DO, AND THIS WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO TAKE WOULDN'T IT? INSTEAD, THE BIG BOYS TRY TO INTIMIDATE THE SMALL GUYS, AND IF THE LARGE CORPORATIONS DON'T PLAY BY THE RULES, THEN THEY DESERVE TO BE SUED SEVERLY, AND THEY SHOULD PAY UP! THIS LEGISLATION WILL ONLY LEAD TO MORE "ENRON" MENTALITY.
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Wow, a piece of legislation that makes sense  DarthRidiculous | 08/04/06
Don't hold your breath...  jasonp@... | 08/07/06
Peronally, I watch it with a way eye  CobraA1 | 08/04/06
We shall see.  HypnoToad | 08/05/06
Unfortunately, you may be right sad. (nt)  CobraA1 | 08/05/06
patent the wheel, patent fire, first thing you know, its time to retire  dmennie | 08/08/06
Beware rj riley agenda  3032901 | 08/05/06
Fair and balanced  tic swayback | 08/07/06
Beware the Foxberts  mighetto | 08/07/06
Perhaps "Sad and Painful" is a better catchphrase  tic swayback | 08/07/06
Lack of News: Gates Foundation tie to United Way  mighetto | 08/07/06
Church of the Painful OS  Reverend MacFellow | 08/05/06
A call for a hymn from Seattles Progressive Internet News  mighetto | 08/07/06
Getting closer to the European Patent System  Francisco Reis | 08/05/06
The Europeans are known for their inventiveness?  DaveMorris | 08/07/06
EU phone computers Rock  mighetto | 08/07/06
EU phone computers Rock  tealcat | 08/08/06
Senators Need to Respect and Protect the little guy  DB-1 | 08/05/06
Little guy?  DarthRidiculous | 08/06/06
Um..  Patrick Jones | 08/07/06
"Little guys" aren't more special than others  Omch'Ar | 08/07/06
Disagree with first to file change......  linux for me | 08/07/06
Public Universities - U of Cal Berkeley - Gov Research  mighetto | 08/07/06
Bill Gates is James Watt?  Resuna | 08/07/06
any change for the worse  pablito@... | 08/07/06
First to File is a better way to go, BUT  Update victim | 08/07/06
Still need to reorganize the USPTO  tic swayback | 08/07/06
WOW - Hatch is the Man  mighetto | 08/07/06
politicians hatch plot to rob inventors. with 45 pages of insight geared  wessonjoe | 08/07/06
Wow, some of you are so funny  Boot_Agnostic | 08/07/06
Nothing but a Dog & Pony...  Omch'Ar | 08/07/06
And the original purpose of patents was what?  gardoglee | 08/07/06
To promote inventions with a time limited monopoly for the inventor  Update victim | 08/07/06
Draining our economy ...  code_flogger | 08/07/06
Have any of you ever patented anything?  DaveMorris | 08/07/06
First to File is theft  rtb | 08/07/06
Only currently, That can be fixed. See My post above  Update victim | 08/07/06
re :First to File is theft  JulesLt | 08/08/06
Patent change  Drroogh | 08/07/06
First to file....yeah but  rollinshultz | 08/08/06
Get a patent agent  GG4rest | 08/08/06
First to file....yeah but  tealcat | 08/08/06
Patent system- don't complicate, simplify  jsqurd@... | 08/08/06
wrong  cwhull | 08/08/06

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