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This bill offered absolutely no positive reform for inventors, simply because, if passed, it would have empowered big enterprise with more infringement bullying power, as small inventors would not be able to survive a legal battle to enforce their patent protection rights.

In addition, small inventors often include a declaration asking for a reduction in the filing fee.

Worse still, it can also put a chill on smaller inventors or companies who don't have the funds to fight such battles.

The role played in the economy by small inventors — «Edison, Hewlett and Packard, Jobs and Wozniak» as the authors put it — is a matter of debate among economists, so for that reason, and despite the undoubted efficiencies consequent upon the change in the system, it's unclear whether a net benefit will result.

Myhrvold and company are not doing this to protect small inventors from big, bad corporations.

A better question is how to stop the real problem: infringement by large corporations who muscle their financial power in the legal system, which obliviates small inventors, which is the very reason Intellectual Ventures came to be so they could protect inventors.

To make their case for why they need easier access to bigger money awards, the patent owners tell stories about small inventors who have their inventions ripped off by big companies who use all sorts of tricks to avoid paying the inventors on their patents.

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Moreover, an examination of publicly listed NPEs indicates that little of the direct costs represents a transfer to small inventors.

Recently we have heard that big portfolios of large companies pose a threat to small inventors, «patent trolls» who exist solely to sue real companies have hijacked the marketplace for new ideas and colossal lawsuits prove that America's patent system is broken.

«It's incredibly important and rewarding to defend a small inventor's interests in the current anti-patent environment», said Raskin.

As a small inventor, Schlager and a partner hired a patent licensing consultant to help them present the technology to cellphone companies like Qualcomm and Motorola.

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Using data on all patents granted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the US Patent and Trademark Office, we find a significant drop in the fraction of patents granted to small inventors in Canada coincident with the implementation of first ‐ to ‐ file.

So let's focus on the argument: Would the Innovation Act have hurt small inventors and empowered large corporations in the small inventors pursuit against infringement from the large corporations?

Thanks for the comment but don't you find it funny how many of these «small inventors» can fund Washington PR people who spout rhetoric like what we see in the comments below;)

For years the small inventor has been victimized by unscrupulous large entities stealing inventions telling the inventor to go sue in court.

This situation provides the basis for inventors to turn to someone like IV to license / sell their patents, simply because a small inventor does not have the financial resources to defend himself in court when pursuing an infringer the size of Apple.

And the Innovation Act was set out to destroy those rights granted to small inventors and innovation while empowering large corporations with more legal bullying power.

My authority on the matter: I am a small inventor with IP, and I have a right to protect my inventions from being stolen by bigger fish while I actualize and bring them to the market.

And in that sense, the bill, if passed, would have only fueled the trolling problem, because small inventors, if they can not protect their IP themselves due to threats of legal bullying, would then be forced to make business decisions to release their IP to more financially endowed trolls who can go out and better enforce the small inventors» rights against infringement.

Would the Innovation Act have hurt small inventors and empowered large corporations in the small inventors pursuit against infringement from the large corporations?

The costs to defendants in NPE suits, most of whom invest heavily in R&D, are much larger than the possible flows to small inventors.

Publicly - traded NPEs cost small - and medium - sized firms more money than these NPEs could possibly transfer to small inventors.

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Reducing the value of patents is just a way to make sure that large corporations, who have legal staff on call, can trample the rights of small inventors.

The Patent Reform Act of 2007 could come before the U.S. House of Representatives for a vote as soon as this week despite objections from some labor unions, small inventors, and some small tech vendors.

Some empirical research actually suggests that a similar transition in the Canadian system correlates with a drop in the percentage of patents granted to small inventors.

So what do you do if you're a small inventor, working in your free time on coding new software, and all of a sudden you're threatened with a patent suit?