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A satirical short interview with Mitt Romney about the various political topics like global warming, the economy and the decline and death of the middle class.

Everybody searches for a cheapo quote to file a provisional patent application. Some robots charge only a few hundred dollars after you fill in a form. The patent office even allows hand labeled photographs and crayon labeled sketches.

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In May, TV 4 (Pittsburgh, Pa.) aired a piece called, “Team 4 Investigates Invention Promotion Companies: Largest One Headquartered In Pittsburgh.” The station’s investigator, Jim Parsons, reported, “An estimated 25,000 inventors each year take their ideas to one of these [invention marketing] companies. And, as Team 4 found out with hidden cameras and an invention of our own, no idea ...

I say Congress and the president should declare factories national treasures, like historical sites, not to be moved out of the country without a proper review. Had this been done, we wouldn’t have the trade deficit, national debt, tax burden, unemployment and social problems we now have.Apparently there are no restriction to protect the few factories left. CEOs who outsource ...

As a native New Yorker I will never see our country in the same light. No matter how perfect our revenge and our reconstruction, 5,000 of our buddies disappeared from their loved ones while at work. They were New Yorkers — people who average 40 miles commute each way daily to put the bread on the table. They work an ...

This is a story of one of the greatest heists in modern American history. It is a story of how billions of dollars were transferred from taxpayers to a small group of avaricious trial lawyers.Five years ago these trial lawyers became fabulously wealthy off of other people’s pain and suffering – and they did it with impunity.

The “Patenting Good Ideas” article touches on the past twenty years of my experiences as a patent attorney serving the needs of over 1000 entrepreneurs. My five-lawyer firm is trying (unsuccessfully) to catch the ear of Congress and the President and Presidential Candidate. Big business has systemically weakened the U.S. Patent system over the past twenty years in order to ...

Wal-Mart gets most of its products from China, and has had over 50 patent theft lawsuits against it at once. IBM just sold its PC business to China. Corporate multinationals have gutted the U.S. patent system by killing the doctrine of equivalents, limiting plain meaning of claims resulting in about half the patents litigated being invalidated. One top patent judge ...

In 2002, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office launched a media campaign to counter invention promotion scams. The public service ads included testimony from inventor Edward Lewis who was quoted: “I spent $13,000 and three years ‘spinning my wheels’ with a company that promised my idea would make lots of money.