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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)

Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Why Are So Many Republicans So Stupid About Patents?

A Prolonged, 
Pronounced Problem
by Seton Motley, Contributing Author:  It boggles the mind how monstrously dumb the Republican Party can be. They ain’t called “The Stupid Party” for nothing.

To wit: The GOP has spent the last seven years winning more than 1,000 elective offices up and down the ballot – in large part because Obamacare has been such an unmitigated disaster. They spent great swaths of that time – campaigning very vigorously on repealing it.

Now that the GOP controls both houses of Congress and the White House – they are steadfastly refusing to repeal Obamacare. It’s as if they missed entirely the last near-decade. Or spent it lying their faces off. Either way – they are being titanically stupid.

Also to wit: So many think the political rise and election of Donald Trump demonstrates said stupidity. The exact opposite is true. The GOP’s dumbness predates Trump – by decades. Trump is a response to the dumbness – not a symptom of it.

Also to wit: The GOP is supposed to be the Party protecting individuals – and the property they possess.

We the People earn money – it’s our property, and we should be allowed to keep almost all of it. Republicans are supposed to be the ones limiting its theft by government.

We’re now nine months in to DC GOP domination, and my faith in their ability to lower tax rates and reform the code – is reaching an Obamacare-repeal nadir.

Then there is intellectual property (IP). Patents, copyrights, trademarks and the like. What they lack in physicality – they more than make up for in direct, enumerated Constitutional protection.

Property is property – and the GOP is supposed to the Party that protects property. Yet so many Republicans are actively on the wrong side when it comes to protecting IP. Which is titanically stupid.

The mythical beast the GOP (and the Left) is allegedly looking to slay – is the “patent troll.” Which is just a little less real than actual conservative Republicans.

Republican California Congressman Darrell Issa is the richest member of Congress. How did he get there? With his car alarm systems – all of which were protected by…patents. Yet he is the lead House dog looking to bite the IP hand that so brilliantly fed him.
House Panel Approves ‘Patent Troll’ Legislation

The lead Senate dog attacking IP – is Utah Republican Orrin Hatch. Who just wrote this massive bit of nonsense:
A Look Forward on Patent Reform: “Our nation’s patent system has been in need of serious reform for many years. So-called “patent trolls” -  entities that don’t actually make or sell anything but that instead buy patent licenses merely to extort settlements  –  have become a serious drain on our economy. According to one study, patent trolls and their frivolous lawsuits cost our country nearly $80 billion per year.”

This is just one giant, stupid lie.

“Entities that don’t actually make or sell anything but that instead buy patent licenses” – aren’t trolls. They’re a vitally important part of the system.

Have you ever met an inventor? A creative genius – who is just a little to weird for the world? They aren’t normal – they are artists. (And I am absolutely not disparaging either Normals or Artists. The world needs – and thus should relish – both.)

Think the Inventor – who sees the world from such an acute angle that he can come up with these brilliant new things – can then transmogrify into the sort of straight-laced, straight-thinking CEO type who can manage his patent portfolio?

There are sixteen different personality types. These are two vastly different ones. Rarely are elements of both found in one person.

What most inventors would very much rather do – is keep inventing. They want to turn their last inventions – into cash, with which to fund their next forays into the wild.

Enter the people who the likes of Issa and Hatch disparage as “patent trolls.” Or – as the investors think of them – angel saviors.

These people make the next inventions possible – by turning the last ones into inventor research cash. And inventor rent. And inventor groceries. And inventor clothes (such as they are). And inventor….

The patent portfolio holders are the conduits between Inventor World – and the Outside World.

So when Hatch writes that these are “(E)ntities that don’t actually make or sell anything but that instead buy patent licenses merely to extort settlements  –  have become a serious drain on our economy. According to one study, patent trolls and their frivolous lawsuits cost our country nearly $80 billion per year” – he is being either seriously disingenuous or seriously stupid. And if he’s being disingenuous – that is seriously stupid.

The end-user people ultimately purchasing the patent use rights for product use – would have to purchase these rights…from someone. If the inventors hadn’t sold their patents – the purchasers would have spent $80 billion purchasing the rights from the inventors.

In other words – the $80 billion would have been spent regardless.

I have in the past sold used cars to car dealerships. Because I didn’t want to deal with listing the vehicle on CraigsList and God knows wherever else. And then dealing with the rash of calls from and showings to the masses. I am not a car salesman – and I do not want to pretend to be.

The dealership then sold my old car. This doesn’t make them “car trolls.” It made them people who made my life a whole lot easier – and gave me cash for my property.

The person who then purchased my old car – had to pay someone for it. It matters not if it was me or the dealership – their money had to be spent.

Hatch and Issa bizarrely call this a problem. I call it the free market working beautifully – with more cash and less headache for me.

The inventors did with their patent property – what everyone who owns property should be able do. They sold it – to whomever they wish. Because they aren’t IP businessmen – and they do not want to pretend to be.

Rather than hawking their existing patents – they would rather be creating more of them.

All of this is a better IP world – for everyone.

Except for the Left. Who have never, ever liked private property.

And, bizarrely, some members of the GOP. Who are supposed to be defending private property in all its forms – and uses.

None of that – is very bright at all.
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Seton Motley is the President of Less Government and he contributes to ARRA News Service. Please feel free to follow him him on Twitter   /   Facebook.

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