How Google and Big Tech Killed the U.S. Patent System

IPWatchdog ^ | March 21, 2018 | Michael Shore

[Pelham]

"Google was one of the three largest bundlers of contributions to President Obama. The year after the America Invents Act was passed, Google contributions were almost $1 million. Google spent $18 million on lobbyists.

What did Google get for its money? A new, weaker patent system that allows challenges to patents outside of court, without a jury, without presumption of validity, using a low standard of proof. Google and friends killed the presumption that makes patents valuable. The expectations of patent owners that their rights would be enforceable against infringers....

"As the U.S. weakens its patent system, other countries are strengthening theirs. China in particular is beefing up its patent infringement remedies like injunctions and allowing ever higher damages awards. So the center of the intellectual property universe will move to China. That can only be bad for U.S. inventors and companies. China designs its IP policies to protect Chinese entities.

The United States Congress has effectively redesigned our intellectual property policies to protect political contributors, many of which are multinational corporations that have no loyalty to the United States because a majority of their revenue is sourced (and kept beyond the reach of US taxes) overseas. Anti-patent, market dominating multinational Elites like Google are loyal to profits and their ability to dominate markets.

A Banana Republic only continues to exist as long as it can supply the bananas. Today, the Elites need the U.S. less and less. They keep trillions of dollars overseas to avoid taxes, they build their products in Asia and their largest markets are quickly becoming Asian as well. We are selling our democracy to the highest bidder while those same bidders are planting all their new banana trees elsewhere. Go ask the people of Honduras what United Fruit and Dole are doing for them now.

[kiryandil]

All the while, Apple was hoping to dupe decision makers into actually believing the licensing rates for the patents they knew were inferior were relevant when determining the licensing rate for Qualcomm’s significantly higher quality patent portfolio. Sadly, it seems as if it worked. Judge Koh bought it, and so did the FTC.

It wasn't a hard sell.

"judge" Lucy Koh is a ClownBammy "judge", and she's married to another DemonRat "judge"...

[PIF]

Google: what hurts America is all good

[LurkedLongEnough]

2010 True Crime
Setting: a Texas district court
Larry Page: We invented this. (12 Lawyers nodding)
Me: No, I invented this because .... (one patent troll lawyer nodding)
Judge: Ok, Google wins.
Me: ....