Ronald J Riley
@omcastbusiness.net
|  Patent Pirating Industry Spin
You have put an interesting spin on this. Another way of looking at it is that we have an industry engaging in racketeering in an attempt to steal other's inventions.
When I look at this issue I see inventors offering the market a product which does not have the liability of being hot merchandise like the other products on the market.
It is interesting that you have offered an estimate of the scope of theft which is occurring in this case. Ten billion a year is most certainly larceny on the grandest of scales. Since this is an industry orchestrated theft it seems likely that the perpretators may be subject to up to treble damages.
Now that would be poetic justice.
Ronald J. Riley,
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Domino Dude, POWER Systems Guy
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Hollywood, FL
| Ronald,
Hopefully you're speaking in support of the Cablelabs partners, and not Rembrandt. Seriously, not every one of these cases is a situation where the "offender" is really the one who's the bad guy.
And that's certainly the case here. RIT is crap, and if you really care about inventors then you shouldn't support them. |
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