Vote NO on S.1145
As you know, Congress has already passed HR1908. Now the Patent Reform Bill (S.1145) is in front of the Senate, and they looked poised to pass it for Presidential review. It is important that as concerned citizens we stand up and make our voice heard.
Here's an excerpt from Dan Leckrone - The TPL Group:
"America has no greater asset than the ideas generated through hard work and imagination. These ideas have long been protected by Patents, which have played a vital role in America's economic expansion and prosperity. With Patents playing such a principal role in the economic success of the past, it is shocking that the United States Congress, the very body that is meant to represent the interest of the overall good, has decided to pursue a policy that would weaken control of America's ideas and make vulnerable the American economy. This policy is being enacted through the "Patent Reform Act", which has the goal of watering down Patents in order to protect big business from lawsuits -- lawsuits which require payment for the use of the technology appropriated.
While the bill's authors may have sincere intentions, if enacted this law would do a great disservice to the American entrepreneurs. It will drastically weaken the Patent System, making it harder for inventors to protect the ideas they worked to create. The irony behind this legislation is that many of the "Patent Reform Act" prime supporters are businesses that have risen to the top of the industry using the very same Patents they now wish to deteriorate. It is unfortunate that these Companies do not wish to bestow the same opportunities to others that they themselves have received."
Mr. Leckrone pretty much sums it up. Please write your US Congress Representative and US Senators and make them understand that as innovative Americans we feel that all businesses, whether public or private, big or small, deserve the opportunity to develop and protect their own ideas. With the goal of economic equality in mind we join with a growing number of businesses, universities and others who feel that the Patent Reform Act should not weaken the ability of Americans to protect their ideas.
As concerned Americans, what can we do?
First, you can provide your support by posting a quick comment on this blog voicing your concern as US citizens against the "Patent Reform Act". A simple "Please vote NO on S.1145" is sufficient. Once we have a considerable amount of responses, I will be sending an email to ALL US Senators with a link to this blog, so that they can see for themselves that there are a large number of constituents asking them to vote NO on S.1145. When posting a comment, it might be beneficial to include your first name and identify the state in which you reside.
Second, you are highly encouraged to write your US Senators and express your concern that this bill, if passed, will only weaken America's greatest strength and passion, that being our strength and passion to innovate.
US Senator Directory:
http://www.senate.gov/
Please join me in sending our elected officials a strong message to vote NO on "S.1145". Thank you!
I am absolutely 100% against this bill! I will be sending both my Senators a letter. Thanks!
California
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Please vote no on S.1145!
California
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I do not support S.1145
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Patent reform stinks! Follow the money...sad, really sad. Senators please listen to the voters, not the money!
Texas
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Alan In Georgia does not support S.1145
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Dear Senators,
The patent reform bill S. 1145 is now before you.
I advise you to vote NO. The backlash this Bill will have on our very existence will detract from what our Forefathers provided us in the constitution. Ideas that become patents are Intellectual Property and belong to the citizen who invented them. If you take my rights away, that is the same as stealing them. Vote No On S.1145.
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No on S.1145! I reside in California. Boxer are you paying attention?
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I vote NO on S.1145. I reside in California and hope Senators Boxer and Feinstein will do the same. This would unfairly weaken our patent system and hurt the inventors and entrepreneurs that work to invent the very things that underpin our economy and solve the thousands of problems humans face every day. Vote NO on 1145. Thank You.
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This patent legislation is a farce..its about time this country had a government of by and for the people..at present we do not...and we the people are getting tired of this.
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I absolutely do not support Patent reform in its current form. Many of the issues don't have anything to do with 'patent reform' such as the limitation of infringers' liability. This basically removes much, if not all, of an infringer's deterrent from infringing. If there are no consequences, then why not just [continue to] infringe??
This makes no sense what-so-ever.. unless that is what this legislation actually desires and supports.
Please don't place a limit on our great countries ability to innovate, and also to defend what is ours... foreign countries are licking their respective chops in anticipation to begin taking advantage of the weakening of the US Patent System this Legislation will affectively result in. Again, is this Congress' goal??
Please vote NO on S.1145
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I do not support s.1145
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It's time for our legislators to stop meddling in something that has been the reflection of America's inventive spirit for over 200 years. You do NOT want to be the Congress that leaves the legacy of destroying this American institution. VOTE NO FOR S.1145!
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Honor and fair compensation is due to those who make this a better world. Let's not allow "deep pockets" to steal what doesn't belong to them!
VOTE NO FOR S.1145!
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I vehemently oppose s.1145, which I feel clearly harms small business owners, innovators, and inventors throughout our country. Many large corporations that are proponents of this bill are quick to sue in order to protect THEIR patent rights, but they then use "bully tactics" against the individual inventors who have worked so hard, many for a lifetime, to provide the public with innovative products. It is sickening to listen to the Microsofts of the nation, in the highest form of hypocrisy, whine about patent litigation when such companies are often the first ones to the courthouse to protect their own patent portfolios, some of which would fill libraries. This bill should be soundly rejected.
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I do not support S.1145
Totally opposed...
Ed in Kansas
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I vote to reject Patent Reform! If the senate won't, than I hope Bush will!
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I do not support s.1145 and would encourage my senators from Tennessee not to support such a bill.
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Stop messing with one of the last ways for the little guy to make it big. Big businesses are putting their weight behind this so they can continue to infringe on patented ideas but now with impunity. Where are the legislators that claim to be for the people? Stop this insanity. We already have THE BEST INTELLECTUAL PROTECTION SYSTEM IN PLACE. DO NOT MESS WITH IT. **VOTE NO ON S.1145 ** and help enable the continuation of the American dream. This will help keep the stealing fat cats at bay.
Again, in case you missed it VOTE NO on S.1145. ARE YOU LISTENING?
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This is from a voter in Indiana. And this voter will check the voting record of the representatives of Indiana on S.1145.
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I do not approve this Bill in any shape or form..
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VOTE NO on S.1145. I DO NOT support this Bill
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Vote NO on S 1145. It will ultimately limit inventive spirit in our country and give another advantage to big business. VOTE NO!
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Vote NO for s.1145
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Jefferson saw this threat of big business and the power they would yield when participating in our founding government. This is another bill that would give MORE power to the corporations and take power away from the little, individual, inventor.
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I oppose s.1145. I think that it is a bill that was created by big business in order to create monopolies. Please vote NO to s.1145
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I do not support S.1145 mass.
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Please do not yield to the lobby groups when deciding the long term status of a patent system that has already stood the test of time!
Vote NO on S.1145.
John
Tennessee
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This bill cuts the heart out of what America stands for! Innovation! Vote NO on S.1145 please!
Virgina
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I do not support S.1145
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Do not pass this reform. It will not be fair to patent holders
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"Please vote NO on S.1145"
Protect the inventor and the entrepreneur. Wisconsin, Vote NO on S.1145 !!!!
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I do not support S.1145
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S.1145 is bad for America. Vote no, or will note no on you for re-election!
DC
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S.1145 cannot stand. Vote "NO" from Wisconsin, lest I vote republican next time. Thank you.
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I do NOT support S. 1145. I will not vote for anyone who does support S. 1145.
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This is from New Hampshire.
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I do NOT support S. 1145. I will not vote for anyone who does support S. 1145.
California, 91326
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I DO NOT support S.1145 so nor should you!
California
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Vote no on S1145, Keep The American Entrepreneur Alive!
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consider this:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0128/p09s02-coop.html
U.S. Can't Afford to Mar Innovation
Proposed patent reforms mean less protection for the underdog.
By Alexander Poltorak
from the January 28, 2008 edition
Suffern, N.Y. - Ever wonder why the US now turns the clock back one hour right after Halloween? According to a book by Michael Downing, it's largely due to the candy lobby that spent much time and money giving out candy-filled pumpkins and making election donations to members of Congress.
Similar forces are at work in another Washington debate that threatens to turn back the clock on innovation as early as February: the so-called Patent Reform Act of 2007. Despite the fact that improvement in some fashion is needed, this sweeping reform, if made law, will undermine the core of the patent system in the United States. It will mean weaker protection for small inventors, university researchers, and entrepreneurs across America.
The frequent characterization of the issue as a struggle between big pharmaceutical companies (against this reform) and the high-tech computer industry (for this reform) is not quite right. In fact, just a handful of high-tech giants – Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, and Dell – support the proposed reforms. Small high-tech companies – the true innovators of this industry – overwhelmingly reject them as do innovators from other industries.
There are several serious problems with the current bill. First, the proposed changes weaken the protection patents are meant to afford by introducing an "apportionment of damages" provision that chips away at the economic value of patents. By diminishing damages that would occur from infringing a patent, it devalues all issued and future patents.
Second, the bill creates a mechanism for endless post-grant oppositions. This would throw a cloud of uncertainty over all issued patents, further diminishing the incentive to innovate and invest in the manufacturing of new products. Many inventors, exhausted from defending the validity of their patent repeatedly, will be forced to abandon their patents.
The bill also proposes changing from the American "first-to-invent" system, which favors true innovators, to a European-style "first-to-file" regime, which favors the winners of a sprint to the patent office. Large corporations, with their legions of patent attorneys on staff, would undoubtedly have the upper hand against small inventors and university researchers in this race.
Other proposed changes take the teeth out of patents and make rights harder to enforce. For example, they make it more difficult to prove willful infringement; diminishing the threat of treble damages will only encourage infringement and promote litigiousness.
The proposed changes in US patent law will make it easier for offshore copycats to bring their pirated goods into the US with impunity. More jobs will be lost as a result, with devastating consequences for American
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Please vote no on S.1145
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I do not support S.1145
Chris - FL
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vote no on s.1145
We want a government of, for and by the people,
not of, for and by the mega corporations.
If this bill is passed, as is, it will be proof our government is broken.
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Please vote no on s.1145. I believe it will impact inventors in this country, negatively.
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I do not support S.1145 In any way...Innovation and it's value can only be realized if one is motivated to invent and once and idea is conceived that one is guaranteed the the full power of our legal system to protect it
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Along with many others, I do not support S.1145 and am asking that you vote NO. This Oregonian thanks you.
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I VOTE no on Patent reform
Atlanta, GA
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I do not support S.1145
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If bill S.1145 passes, it will be a
shameful resolution affecting the
financial growth and future inventors
of this country.
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I do not support S.1145, nor will I support any elected official if they vote in favor of S.1145.
Jeff-Nevada
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please vote against s1145,it would destroy very basic fabric of America.
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The ONLY thing that is truly American is the freedom of invention. Please vote no on S.1145!
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If you pass this bill, you are legalizing theft!!! I can't believe this bill is even being considered! VOTE NO on S.1145!!!!!
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Vote NO on S.1145. Absolutely No!
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Vote NO on S.1145
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If I were a senator I would certainly vote no on S.1145.
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Destroying incentive and innovation is the goal of monopolies and terrorists. These qualities of the american way of life must remain paramount to the US entrepreneur. These qualities are fragile human characteristics and to suppress them in any way is truly detrimental to the future of the United States.
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If you value innovation and the competitive edge it provides for our economy and its citizens then please vote no on S.1145. Caving in to multi-national corporations that continue to sell American interests down the drain is not an option. Grow a spine and do the right thing for inventors and innovators that deserve the fruit of their labor.
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please vote no on s 1145
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I absolutely do not support S.1145
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Please vote NO on S.1145
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Shame on the Senate for giving special interest a chance to deccimate our patent system. I am proud to be an American where my ideas and creativity can yield the American dream for me. How dare Congress try to put a stumblingblock in my way! Vote NO on S.1145!
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I absolutely do not support patent reform! Any US Senator, or elected official for that matter, should be embarrased if they support this bill in it's present form and sell out America and the principals it was built on!
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VOTE NO ON S.1145.
WE ARE THE LEADER IN GLOBAL INNOVATION, PARTLY BECAUSE OF OUR CURRENT PATENT POLICY. WE ARE LEADERS, NOT FOLLOWERS. WHILE IT IS NOT PERFECT IT CERTAINLY IS NOT BROKEN. IT WOULD BE COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE AS WELL AS ANTI-AMERICAN TO SEEK TO MODEL OURSELVES AS WELL AS OUR PATENT SYSTEM AGAINST INFERIOR SYSTEMS ABROAD. THE REASON AMERICA IS SO DIVERSE IN ITS POPULATION IS THAT IT IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. EVERYONE WANTS A PIECE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. PEOPLE CONTINUE TO COME HERE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD SEEKING THE Opportunities NOT AFFORDED THEM IN THE VERY SAME COUNTRIES TO WHICH THIS REFORM BILL WOULD HAVE US ASSIMILATE TO. WE ARE THE ENVY OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD. AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE! FREEDOMS THAT ARE PROTECTED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. A CONSTITUTION WRITTEN BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. A GOVERNMENT ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE.
THE ONLY CHANGE THAT MAY BE NECESSARY IS A CHANGE IN THE ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO WOULD VOTE FOR THIS BILL. A BILL WHICH WOULD UNDERMINE AND WEAKEN THE VERY PROTECTIONS AFFORDED US IN A CONSTITUTION WHICH HAS PROVEN TO BE THE BACKBONE OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY. ONE THAT COUNTLESS AMERICANS HAVE FOUGHT AND GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR TO PRESERVE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
NICK FROM NEW YORK.
SEE YOU AT THE POLLS
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The draconian bill before the Senate..
***Steal American Technologies Act***
AKA
PATENT REFORM ACT...S.1145
is an outright travesty and I strongly beseech the Senate membership to cast a resounding NO vote.
I'm opposed to this bill because it gives too much power to the big technology transnational companies seeking an easy fix to the billions of patent damage awards they've been ordered to pay in recent years without changing "their obviously unfair and illegal business practices."
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Please vote NO on S.1145
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I live in California and I do not support revising the current patent regulations to diminish the value of a patent to its inventor or to the company that owns it.
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I do not support s.1145
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I do not support S.1145. If this passes we should change the name of our country from the united states of America to China of the West!! This is not even to be considered!
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It is a farce that this bill is even being considered. Vote no!
Michigan
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I do not support S.1145
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To even consider passing this bill , our elected officials are truely waging a war on the average Joe / the middle class........Protect the intent of the origional patent laws..It was put there to protect the hard working inventor...Changing the law will stiffle creativity....
Voting no on S.1145 will show our country that the free enterprise system is still alive.....A yes vote will prove that this country is all about giving more to the people who already have so much...Competition will die......That would be shameful..........
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I do not support S.1145!
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I do not support S.1145 !
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I am opposed to S.1145 and implore you to vote negative on it.
Thank you
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Regarding S.1145 (as currently written) in my opinion, it would stifle innovation especially for the individual/small inventor where many of our great ideas come from. Large Tech. corporations are lobbying hard for this reform, please ask yourself WHY! What is it that they really fear? Now, when you honestly answer this question (vote your conscience).
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It is outrageous that Patent Reform Bill S.1145 has already passed through the House and it will be ridiculous if the Senate follows suit. The occasional David vs Goliath story that surfaces when a little guy is able to navigate the bureaucracies and to actually patent an idea, commercialize it and to defend it will be a thing of the past. The ability of the "little guy" to do this is is absolutely a major part of the American Dream for those of us who have an original idea now and again. To shift the system in any way toward big business which S.1145 does by limiting damages for infringement awards will encourage big corporations over the less capitalized to infringe because big business will most assuredly spend a fraction of what they would have spent by infringing (stealing-really) than they would by actually spending the time and money in doing the research and development work themselves. They are already doing this and to limit infringement awards will open the floodgates to such corrupt and greedy behavior. Either way this shifting the system in favor of big business will rip at the fabric of the American Dream. No doubt in my mind. Do you want executives in corporations all over the world considering and deciding to infringe upon intellectual property that individuals and teams have toiled years and years to develop? Does that seem right to you? If S.1145 encourages just such pathetic theft. Please oppose S.1145 in its current form.
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I live in Detroit. I do not support S.1145. Michigan, land of the hard working, does not support S.1145.
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S.1145 is only good for big business like Microsoft, which is ironic, since it is our wonderful patent system that made them their money. Senators, ask yourself this question, who do you work for? Big Business or the American People? Vote no on S.1145
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I do not support s.1145. Please vote no on this initiative. Thank you.
Nevada
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Please vote NO on S.1145
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I would urge all of our congressional representatives to vote against any patent reform, especially S.1145 in it's present form.
The United States has long been a leader in innovative enhancements that has benefited the entire globe by it's independent research and creativity. Creating the fresh idea is the fundamental backbone of progress and to in any way quell that inspiration can only result in a less progressive future by providing less incentive.
Please vote NO.
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I am very opposed to s.1145. This bill does nothing but line the pockets of big business.
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Vote NO on s.1145
California
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I do not support s.1145.
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Please vote NO for s.1145. This hurts the small entrepreneurs and stifles innovation. The US was founded on small business and the risk taking entrepreneurs. This great country has been in the forefront of developing new technology and by approving this Patent Reform Act, will cause a set-back in our leadership.
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Vote no on s.1145
California
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Please vote NO on s.1145. This Patent Reform Act is only geared towards big business and will only create yet another obstacle for the "little guy" go to protect their ideas. America is the land of opportunity - for all men and women.
We must protect what we've all worked so hard for. I urge you to stop this Reform Act dead in its track and vote NO on s.1145.
John from MA
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I am from the state of Missouri and I do not support S.1145. Please keep our patent system as is.
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Please do not support s.1145 in it's current form. It only helps large companies and stifles the little guy.
I live in the state of New Jersey
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“I do not support S.1145”
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Please vote NO on S.1145.
Stop messing with one of the last ways for the little guy to make it big. Big businesses are putting their weight behind this so they can continue to infringe on patented ideas but now with impunity. Where are the legislators that claim to be for the people? Stop this insanity. We already have THE BEST INTELLECTUAL PROTECTION SYSTEM IN PLACE. DO NOT MESS WITH IT. **VOTE NO ON S.1145 ** and help enable the continuation of the American dream. This will help keep the stealing fat cats at bay.
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Please vote NO for s.1145. This hurts the small entrepreneurs and stifles innovation.
New Jersey
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Please vote no on s.1145. It is time that the government stood up for the little guy for once, and not the ones lining the politicians pockets.
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We need clear rules in this matter, we all admit that- perhaps it's time to actually do that. I also think we need more law categories, we can't just continue with these lawsuits and conflicts in patents and inventions.
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