Patent Reform Needs Reform Joseph Fjelstad 10/16/2017 00:01 AM EDT ...
The AIA has unfortunately creating a situation where the independent inventor and small enterprise with limited resources must do battle with large corporations with deep pockets. Big companies routinely ignore independent inventors and smaller companies when they attempt to assert and enforce their patents. Lobbyists for large corporations have successfully robbed the independent inventor and small companies of their incentive to bring their ideas to market.
The largest corporations in America used the original patent system as a ladder to climb to their present success. With the AIA’s reforms, they have now substantially pulled that ladder up behind them to assure that young upstart individuals and companies cannot use patents for future successes of their own.
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-Joseph Fjelstad is a 45-year electronics industry veteran, serial entrepreneur, author and named inventor on more than 180 U.S. patents.
-Not just "pulled that ladder up", they also use AIA to willfully infringe other's patents and put their potential competitors into bankcrutcy or so. They created AIA for their gain at the expense of the country's interest.