Inventions and the Inventor |
Inventors are normal people that endure years of unpaid research, high costs associated with filing and obtaining patent/s and then face large corporations who's policies are to ignore inventors and patent notice letters. These same companies then complain about being sued and then ignite propaganda campaigns (directly, through organizations, lobbyist, etc). The U.S. inventor occupation has reached an all-time historic low through the name-calling and corporate disregard for individually owned patents. U.S. innovations and advancements will continue to decline until this changes.
The almost borderless world economy has made some industry sectors more difficult, such as U.S. manufacturing - for example; Entrepreneur article http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228315 "Designed by Apple in California," but in the U.S., design is as far as Apple is willing to go. The tech giant outsources hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs to countries like Mongolia, China, Korea and Taiwan.Sep 11, 2013” Apple employs hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs outside the U.S. - One world industry sector the U.S. has lead (and must continue to lead) is “INNOVATION”. Former Chief Judge Howard Markey of the Federal Circuit said "The patent system encourages inventors to invent and disclose. Corporations don’t invent; people do. Yet, the patent system also encourages corporations and investors to risk investment in research, development, and marketing without which the public could not gain the full benefit of the patent system. The right to exclude conferred by a valid patent thus deserves the same respect when that right is in the hands of an individual as when it is in the hands of a corporation.” |