Big Tech IP Theft: We Get a Second Bite at Larcenous Apple

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Massive Tech is SOOOO massive…they will do just about no matter they need — no matter its illegality — and get away with it.

That is most particularly damaging in terms of Massive Tech’s large heists of Mental Property (IP).

IP theft undermines the way forward for all issues financial.  As a result of why would individuals waste their time, effort, and cash inventing issues if Massive Tech then parachutes in and steals them?

Massive Tech Threatens Financial system with Mental Property Theft

As a result of Massive Tech are the richest monoliths within the historical past of the planet and may thus afford to take action, they cowl all of their IP-theft bases.

To wit: Shopping for authorities and its very many minions is not any drawback in any respect.

Massive Gov’s Promote-Out, Crony Legislative Theater: ‘Let’s Faux We’re Outraged’:

“Massive Tech…(has been) shopping for ever extra management of Massive Authorities – and all of Massive Authorities’s D.C. attendants.

“Massive Tech, Massive Money: Washington’s New Energy Gamers

“Massive Tech Goes Massive on Lobbying Efforts

“How A lot Cash Does Massive Tech Give Out to Assume Tanks?

“Shocker: It’s tons.

“Which Conservative Teams Take Massive Tech Cash?

“Shocker: It’s tons.”

Massive Tech buying Massive Authorities means corrupt, crony laws.

The US Has Institutionalized Massive Tech’s Mental Property Theft

How the America Invents Act Harmed Inventors

The Solely Factor the America Invents Act Can’t Take from Me: My Story:

“From the time my patent was granted to the time it expires, an organization that stole my invention from my fingers can have generated over $1 trillion {dollars} utilizing it. When confronted with a patent infringement lawsuit, they weaponized the America Invents Act, which they lobbied into legislation, and the (Patent Trial and Attraction Board) PTAB validated their theft.”

Massive Tech’s possession of presidency means we get numerous noise from bureaucrats about reining in Massive Tech — however no precise motion:

“Massive Tech doesn’t face ‘Congressional scrutiny’ – Massive Tech faces Congressional scrutiny THEATER.  Congressmen and Senators pound tables, situation press releases, make remarkably un-scintillating TV and radio appearances, maintain hearings – and even often file laws.

“But it surely’s all a extremely unhealthy highschool musical.  Nothing substantive ever truly occurs. No legal guidelines truly cross. And that’s as a result of DC’s alleged representatives of We the Folks – truly symbolize Massive Tech.”

All of which suggests Massive Tech firms could make IP theft their enterprise mannequin — and the bureaucrats do completely nothing about it.

U.S. Tech Giants Stealing Mental Property:

“If the richest and strongest companies in America are ignoring our mental property legal guidelines, why shouldn’t our international adversaries?”

Amazon’s Communist China Impersonation: Industrial Mental Property Theft

The Proof Google’s Systematic Theft is Anti-Aggressive

Apple Loathes Mental Property – Except, Of Course, It’s Theirs

And if somebody can truly run the IP-theft-favoring authorities gauntlet and get a Massive Tech thief in court docket, issues not often go as they need to.

Google’s Huge ‘Open Supply’ Heist: The Punishment Should Match the Crimes

Google Tries to Get the Supreme Court docket to Faux to be Congress and Write Them Pretend ‘Regulation’

Google: ‘If You Don’t Let Us Steal – Folks Will Cease Making Issues for Us to Steal’

The Supreme Court docket Screws Up But Once more – And Screws Us for Generations:

“‘The Supreme Court docket sided Monday with Google in an $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle over the web firm’s creation of the Android working system used on most smartphones worldwide.

“‘To create Android, which was launched in 2007, Google…used 11,330 traces of code and a company that’s a part of Oracle’s Java platform.’…

“Oracle’s Java is copyright protected – per the Structure.  And Google stole it.

“Google’s pre-theft actions – definitively demonstrated they knew they couldn’t simply take Oracle’s Java code.

“‘The Electronic mail The place Google Admits They Stole the Mental Property to Construct Android’

Time and time once more….

We’re Left to Clear up the Supreme Court docket’s Many Messes

Typically, the IP-heisted-aggrieved simply sue for peace.  As a result of it’s usually all they will get.

Apple and Qualcomm Settle Billion-Greenback Lawsuit

Apple Lastly Admits They’ve Been Stealing Billions of {Dollars} from Qualcomm for Years:

“In February 2017, iMonster Apple stopped paying Qualcomm for the patented applied sciences Qualcomm invented – and Apple used of their wi-fi gadgets.

“Please observe: Apple had signed a number of contracts – by which they agreed to pay Qualcomm for permission to make use of the patented applied sciences Qualcomm invented.

“Please additionally observe: Apple continued to subsequently promote hundreds of thousands of wi-fi gadgets – for tens of billions of {dollars} – containing the patented applied sciences Qualcomm invented.  For which Apple had signed a number of contracts – by which they agreed to pay Qualcomm for permission to make use of the patented applied sciences Qualcomm invented.

“Lawsuits instantly sprung up right here in the USA – and all around the world.”

That settlement was however a fraction of what Apple truly owed Qualcomm.

However now it seems Qualcomm is getting a second chew at Massive-Tech-IP-Thief Apple — in a court docket case that encompasses tons of what’s fallacious with the IP-heist-favoring setting the Massive Authorities-Massive Tech cabal has created.

Qualcomm Will get One other Probability to Validate Patents in Apple Lawsuit:

“iPhone modem provider Qualcomm will get the go-ahead from the U.S. Court docket of Appeals to defend one in every of its patents.

Apple and Qualcomm settled a patent lawsuit in 2019 and entered a six-year contract on the cusp of Intel exiting the modem enterprise. Nonetheless, each firms have since challenged this settlement based mostly on totally different patent selections.

“Qualcomm’s attraction states that the Patent Trial and Attraction Board wrongly relied on a Qualcomm patent to seek out it was invalid. It had beforehand dominated that the patent certified as prior artwork, and Qualcomm disputes this resolution.

“The Federal Circuit has agreed with Qualcomm’s attraction, giving the corporate one other likelihood to defend its patent….

“Because of this, the case was despatched again to the Patent Trial and Attraction Board to contemplate if the assertion was the idea for Apple’s problem.”

Sadly, the court docket ruling sends the case again to the exceedingly terrible PTAB that bought it fallacious within the first place.

PTAB: DCs Newest Unaccountable, Energy Grabbing Authorities Board

Federal Panel Destroys U.S. Inventors’ Property Rights

How the Patent Trial and Attraction Board Harms Inventors:

“Since most PTAB procedures are launched in opposition to patents being enforced in opposition to massive multinational infringers, the one behavioral change an inventor could make is to not implement patent rights even when a big multinational company steals the invention.

“Maybe that’s the level of the AIA.”

Of COURSE, that’s the level of the America Invents Act (AIA) — which created the PTAB.

The PTAB is definitely unconstitutional:

“‘Supreme Court docket Says Over 200 Patent Judges Have been Improperly Appointed:

“‘The Supreme Court docket dominated on Monday that greater than 200 administrative judges who hear patent disputes, a few of them over billions of {dollars}, had been appointed in violation of the Structure.’

“These judges are certainly unconstitutional.  As a result of they’re judges – within the Govt Department.  Which suggests the Govt Department is pretending to be the Judicial Department.  And that’s a little bit of a Separation of Powers drawback.”

The Supreme Court docket dominated the PTAB unconstitutional — however then saved it from extermination…by including to the unconstitutionality.

The Supreme Court docket Virtually Guidelines Correctly. Virtually:

“The Court docket dominated these Govt Department judges are unlawful – as a result of they’re within the Govt Department.  However then posited as a ‘resolution’ – having one other member of the Govt Department evaluation their rulings.

“The Court docket’s ‘resolution’ provides one other layer of unconstitutional paperwork.  It doesn’t present a treatment for the unconstitutionality the Court docket its personal self recognized.”

Oh: And, in fact, the PTAB exists to rule for Massive Tech:

“Regardless of grandiose claims on the contrary, the PTAB was created for Massive Tech:

“‘PTAB is used virtually completely by massive multinational firms to assault patents of a lot smaller rivals. Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Intel, Comcast, and Cisco are prime filers. Smaller firms often try to make use of the PTAB, however normally provides a variety of expense with out resolving the dispute….

“‘PTAB provides a median of $450,000 for every problem filed. Most disputes concerned a number of patents, so the extra price normally exceeds $1M. If the inventor survives PTAB, they should fend off related challenges within the common court docket.’

“$450,000 per submitting is unfastened pocket change for Massive Tech.  It’s a crushing fortune for particular person inventors.”

And, in fact, the PTAB is run by Massive Tech….

Indignant Inventors Accuse Patent Workplace’s Appeals Board of Favoring Massive Tech:

“Since its creation by Congress in 2012, the board has angered the inventing neighborhood, which says the evaluation course of is biased.

“One choose, for instance, represented Apple Inc. in personal apply after which dominated in favor of the tech large 17 instances after becoming a member of the court docket….

“Eyebrows had been raised this summer season when a lawyer representing the patent workplace in a federal court docket attraction of a board resolution acknowledged that the company had added further judges to critiques with the intention to obtain the specified end result….”

And now now we have Qualcomm’s second chew at IP-Thief Apple within the fingers of the unconstitutional, Massive Tech-favoring PTAB.

We’d prefer to be optimistic.  However we’ve been paying consideration, so….