One of the reasons America is the most innovative country on the planet is that the founding fathers had the wisdom to enshrine patents as part of the Constitution. Our strong patent system has unleashed the tremendous creativity of individual inventors and small companies and allowed them to compete with industrial giants in the development of revolutionary technology that improves all of our lives.
Unfortunately, there are large companies that don’t like competition from “upstarts.” They have been lobbying Congress to change the patent system. They call companies such as PACid whose business is based on inventing new technology and licensing it to others “patent trolls” because we are not a manufacturer ourselves. They call us names because they prefer to steal our ideas than pay for them.
It’s vitally important that Congress not harm the creative inventors driving new technologies. In this section we will share articles about inventing and patents, especially on the subject of patent reform.
As Calvin Coolidge said, “it is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.” We urge Congress to go slow on patent reform.
Published by TheHill by Guy Fielder Congress has been trying to pass “patent reforms” that will stop “patent trolls.” Unfortunately, there’s a hidden agenda behind these “reforms.” There definitely are some bad apples out there – people who send spam…
This article was published on The Hill, a leading news source for happenings in Congress. It was written by David Pridham, CEO of Dominion Harbor Group. It’s patent reform season in Congress again, and along with the warming weather comes…
