Mr. Ford Ford:  most of these cases are not properly described as someone “using your invention and refusing to pay” because the thing that was patented is in no way an invention.  It is in no way a legal patent, and the “invention” was in no way stolen.  Someone just happened to use an obvious solution that might or might not match a vague description in the “patent.”  It is usually something that has been done for years, and is so obvious no one bothered to publish a text book about it.  The patent office granted a patent only because some lawyer used a lot of buzzwords and smoke and mirrors to fool a patent examiner into thinking that a commonplace and obvious solution to a problem was not, in fact obvious.

For heaven’s sake, man.  The patent office issued a patent on PLUGGING AN AIR CONDITIONER INTO A TIME CLOCK!

Looks like the Stragent Foundation is doing some good things in the community.

translation: patents that are owned by anyone other than the large firms that paid you to write this propaganda

“Patent troll”

Call it what you will…patent hoarder, patent troll, non-practicing entity, etc. It all means one thing: “we’re using your invention and we’re not going to pay”. This is just dissembling by large infringers to kill any inventor support system. It is purely about legalizing theft.

Prior to eBay v Mercexchange, small entities had a viable chance at commercializing their inventions. If the defendant was found guilty, an injunction was most always issued. Then the inventor small entity could enjoy the exclusive use of his invention in commercializing it. Unfortunately, injunctions are often no longer available to small entity inventors because of the Supreme Court decision so we have no fair chance to compete with much larger entities who are now free to use our inventions. Essentially, large infringers now have your gun and all the bullets. Worse yet, inability to commercialize means those same small entities will not be hiring new employees to roll out their products and services. And now some of those same parties who killed injunctions for small entities and thus blocked their chance at commercializing now complain that small entity inventors are not commercializing. They created the problem and now they want to blame small entities for it. What dissembling! If you don’t like this state of affairs (your unemployment is running out), tell your Congress member. Then maybe we can get some sense back in the patent system with injunctions fully enforceable on all infringers by all inventors, large and small.

For the truth about trolls, please see http://truereform.piausa.org/default.html#pt.