{"id":251,"date":"2018-09-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickpatents.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:43:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:43:31","slug":"time-once-again-to-call-your-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickpatents.com\/time-once-again-to-call-your-congressman\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Once Again to Call Your Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now that we've been subjected to the Patent Trials and Appeals Board (PTAB) for about five years, combined with a couple of Supreme Court decisions in 2006 and 2017, the need for legislation to protect inventors' rights is obvious (if I may use that term).&nbsp; If you haven't watched the story of Josh Malone and his invention\"Bunch-o-Balloons,\" you need to watch it to see why we need this legislation.&nbsp; If you're an Amazon Prime member you can watch it for free... the movie is called \"<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Invalidated-Josh-Malone\/dp\/B07G2WGTK6?crid=14I105UUZWV1D&amp;keywords=invalidated+josh+malone&amp;qid=1537392219&amp;sprefix=invalidated+josh%2Caps%2C200&amp;sr=8-1-fkmrnull&amp;ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Invalidated<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\" (2018) and stars Josh Malone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Us little guys with valid patents are being abused by big companies that seemingly can invalidate our patents just by asking the PTO to do a re-exam.&nbsp; This impacts the value of patents for everyone, but especially us independent inventors.&nbsp; Please contact your congressman and senators and let them know that you'd like them to support&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipwatchdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Inventor-Protection-Act-2018-07-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H.R. 6557, the Inventor Protection Act<\/a>.&nbsp; To find your representatives,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.gov\/representatives\/find-your-representative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also some alternate bills coming next year, so please keep an eye out and stay informed!&nbsp; See Gene Quinn's website&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipwatchdog.com\/2018\/08\/09\/congressman-rohrabacher-introduces-inventor-protection-act\/id=99780\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IP Watchdog<\/a>&nbsp;, and Randy Landreneau's website&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usinventor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US inventor<\/a>, for more details.&nbsp; Also, here's a story about another inventor who's patents were invalidated at the PTAB (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipwatchdog.com\/2018\/09\/02\/personal-plea-zip-inventor-support-inventor-protection-act\/id=100804\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Plea From the Zip-It Inventor<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we've been subjected to the Patent Trials and Appeals Board (PTAB) for about five years, combined with a couple of Supreme Court decisions in 2006 and 2017, the need for legislation to protect inventors' rights is obvious (if I may use that term).&nbsp; If you haven't watched the story of Josh Malone and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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