Patent lawyer Gene Quinn has been sued
by Invention Submission Corporation (dba Invent Help) in the United States Federal District Court for the Northern District of New York. The complaint … alleges that I have engaged in false and misleading advertising that has cost Invent Help business. They apparently do not like the fact that I have written about invention submission scams and have recounted the many stories that I have heard from inventors who feel they have been taken advantage of by Invent Help.
Quinn is a notorious (but inarticulate and inept) defender of the patent system; see Gene Quinn: Patent Twit of the Week; Koepsell – Quinn “Debate” on Gene Patents; Gene Quinn the Patent Watchdog; Patent Lawyers Who Don’t Toe the Line Should Be Punished!. Still, it’s sad to see him victimized by someone using an unjust law–these laws are basically types of IP laws, in that they are in effect based on rights in reputations. Reputation rights are not usually classified as IP rights, but they are similarly unjust, and similarly based on the idea that if you “create” “something” “of value,” then you should own it–patents cover created inventions, copyright covers created works of art, and a variety of laws (trademark, defamation, misleading advertising) protect rights in one’s reputation, which one is said to have “created” as well. Quinn favors people having the right to use the state courts to sue and damage people based on artificial intellectual “rights.” And that’s what’s being done to him now.
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You don’t speak to the issue Jay. As you know, there is a much more fundamental issue here, being, that the anti-IP lobby are seeking to destroy the notion of property. Nothing less.
A freedom movement has nowhere to go from that point.
Mark Hubbard,
I stand corrected. You’ve clearly shown that you don’t believe lying to be immoral. My bad.
And now you turn as slippery as Kinsella. You seem to want to imply from time to time you have no real agenda – nor philosophy – but an agenda you surely do.
Yes, lying is immoral, as is file sharing, as is advocacy of no-IP.
Mark Hubbard wrote:
“As you know, there is a much more fundamental issue here, being, that the anti-IP lobby are seeking to destroy the notion of property. Nothing less.”
This is a lie. And you know it. You know very well that the anti-IP lobby are not seeking to destroy the notion of property. The anti-IP lobby are simply questioning the legitimacy of patterns and ideas as a form of property. But everyone here in the anti-IP camp are in full support of property. You know that.
You make a statement you know not to be true and then say you believe lying to be immoral.
Own up to the fact that the anti-IP crowd are not the group of immoral thieves you first thought them to be. They are making logical arguments.
I don’t make wild accusations of the pro-IP camp being in some conspiracy to promote facism. I have sort to understand their opinion and I respect their attempts to logically demonstrate it. I disagree with them, but I understand how and why they came to their conclusions.
It would be far more intellectually constructive for all parties if you shared the same attitude.
p.s. The lie comment was actually an attempt at humor. I guess it failed miserably.
p.p.s. Yes I do have an agenda. No it is not world domination. I am simply seeking the truth.
@Mark Hubbard:
Please think about the following situation:
Person P lives alone on an island (island 1). There are some objects on this island. Person P owns them.
These are:
A piece of paper
A pencil
some wood
some metal
some tools
Person X lives on another island (island 2), on which there live many more people. There also does exist some kind of minarchist government (including a patent office and laws regulating copyright).
Person X writes a novel and invents a new gimmick, which consists of metal and wood. He gets a patent for the from the patent office.
What about person P now?
1) Did he lose some rights to his property because person X got a patent on island 2? Isn’t he allowed to combine the objects he has on any possible and imaginable way anymore?
2) Isn’t he allowed anymore to write anything down on his piece of paper that he wants?
3) Do you really think that property rights are not absolute, even if someone lived on an island alone?
Please answer those questions. Please do not try to circumvent them. Lying is not moral.
Gene Quinn is a twit. He wants to corner the market on computer-generated patent applications for himself. Seriously.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(Eugene+AND+quinn).IN.&OS=in/(Eugene+and+quinn)&RS=IN/(Eugene+AND+quinn)
I spent around $10,000 with NO results! Plus, I didn’t have it to spend! My mistake!!! Take my advice: DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!
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