Patent Trolls add cost to the products you purchase like an iPhone or Android.
A key to innovation and moving forward into the future is protection of the fruits of ones labor and ideas. This is what a patent does. They are certain criteria for the awarding of a US Patent. Unfortunately “Patent Trolls” earn money by settling out of court with industrious & innovative individuals and successful companies. It is less of a cost to settle than to fight in long dragged out court cases.
Austin Meyer, the creator of X-Plane Flight Simulator is fighting back with Information and asking the government to overturn the Patent Trolls.
Here is his message
Hi everyone!
As many of you know, I, and many other developers, have been sued for using the Google Play store to distribute our apps on Android. The lawsuits come from a company called Uniloc, which had nothing to do with the creation of the Google Store, but still claims to own the PATENT on how it works.
Uniloc creates no goods or services, and makes its money only from suing those that do, claiming to own the patents that describe the work that others do.
In my case, Uniloc offered to drop its lawsuit against me for distributing my own App if I just gave them $50,000.00, and promised to never tell anybody what they did.
Instead, I fought them in court, and made a documentary about patent trolling.
It’s called “The Patent Scam,” and will be coming out on iTunes, Amazon, Dish Network, and many other outlets on August 15!
See the trailer:
See the movie:
Amazon Video: http://a.co/h1C0Dmq
FandangoNOW: http://bit.ly/2uGtTOd
Google Play: http://bit.ly/2vYpJkq
iTunes: http://apple.co/2fHKTg6
Vimeo: http://bit.ly/2uLPEI4
Vudu: http://bit.ly/2waHmxc
Microsoft XBOX: http://bit.ly/2vACTD4
YouTube: http://bit.ly/2uFWEul
Catch the EXTRAS:
Hit the Web:
https://www.thepatentscam.com
https://twitter.com/
https://www.facebook.com/
See it on pay-TV:
Comcast, Dish Network, Cox, Charter, Verizon, and more.
Buy it on physical DVDs and Blu-Ray:
Amazon DVD: http://amzn.to/2uFUkDF
Amazon BD: http://amzn.to/2x1cHzl
Saintpaulrepublicans.us is posting this as a courtesy to communicate to you how patent trolls siphon off profits from big corporations and make sure small starts ups don’t get anywhere, and most importantly add more cost to what could be a cheaper product you want to buy. There is a fee to watch it, but you can do it from your computer or some other viewing device, and you can pop your own popcorn. Austin Meyer was Publius Jr’s college roommate at Iowa State University who remembers the countless hours Austin spent working on X-Plane Flight Simulator. Saintpaulrepublicans.us does not get any financial benefit at all from relaying this information.