HONORABLE SENATORS – SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
About The Patent Reform Act of 2007 – S.1145
From George Margolin -- Vice President Professional Inventors Alliance
Patentor@gmail.com --- www.inventorsblog.org -- 949-645-5950
Honorable Senators -- Following are a simple set of questions and answers that may help you in your deliberations of whether to vote Yea or Nay on S.1145.
First off – there seem to be a number of necessary steps missing – before the enactment of such a monumental sea change, to our world-leading, working patent system.
A HUGE, unprecedented and unparalleled change such as this, will have innumerable, unintended consequences, that can and WILL corrupt the past and foil the future of American Technological Leadership.
BEFORE WE MOVE WE MUST HAVE PROOF THAT IT IS SAFE TO JUMP from the known platform of SECURITY AND STABILITY OF OUR WORLD CLASS – WORLD LEADING -- U.S. PATENT SYSTEM -- to an unknowable Abyss of special interest wish lists, like those of the anti-patent, Coalition for Patent “FAIRNESS???!”
Q. -- WHERE and WHEN are the PRUDENT tests that MUST BE DONE to PROVE these changes will work -- BEFORE committing and possibly DESTROYING THE ENTIRE AMERICAN PATENT SYSTEM AND OUR ECONOMY WITH IT?
Q. – Are there things in this legislation that have NOT been addressed that, would provide the time and means for testing, evaluating, adding, subtracting, reworking, correcting, changing, revoking and GUARANTYING the success of this massive DISRUPTION to a 218 year old -- best-in-the-world -- WORKING American Patent System?
Q. -- Does Senator Leahy have PROOF that this will or even CAN work? If so, Is it from the double-speak named Coalition for Patent “FAIRNESS,” where their spokesman wrote:
“Someone who invents the "X" key shouldn't be able to sue the keyboard maker for the value of all the letters, said Beau Phillips, spokesman for the Coalition for Patent Fairness, the main group promoting, sponsoring and supporting reform.”
Q. – REALLY??!!! Who would be foolish enough to BUY a keyboard WITHOUT the X or A, or E or any other crucial key???
Q. -- Do these “Fairness” folks not understand that IF IT’S A CRUCIAL, CRITICAL and NECESSARY part of the Keyboard – or the equivalent of that in any other Product – that NO ONE WOULD BUY IT WITHOUT IT?
Q. -- How can we KNOW S.1145 will perform for ALL NEEDED American technological requirements if we don’t test it, test it, test it – BEFORE WE LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWABLE CHASM of UNRECALLABLE legislation?
Q. -- Where’s the PROOF that this can possibly work? Is there a safe and sensible recallable PILOT PROGRAM hidden in it somewhere?
Q. -- Is there any GUARANTY that we can SAFELY Jump off the Pinnacle of our Technological Success AND SURVIVE AS A NATION?
Q. – Isn’t its intent to “HARMonize” and drag our nation down Into the ABYSS of the Lowest Common Denominator Mediocrity of our international competitors?
To Conclude -- We must NOT make huge and IRREVOCABLE DISRUPTIONS to our SUCCESSFUL U.S. PATENT SYSTEM – WITHOUT SAFE AND VERIFIABLE TESTS and PILOT PROGRAMS -- simply because Microsoft et al, are spending MILLIONS LOBBYING FOR IT! Or to rephrase -- “BECAUSE they are spending millions lobbying for it -- CAN WE REALLY TRUST THAT THEIR INTENT IS “GOOD FOR AMERICA?”.
If the Senate cannot know for certain BEFORE we leap – and it make us LEAP -- God Save America -- because Microsoft et al -- WON’T!
PLEASE VOTE NO ON S.1145
