The beginning of an inventor’s quest to protect his patents for an innovation that allowed people to select a night’s dream in “Stepping on Fingers,” from an infringing corporation:
“Mordoff had endured the delay and expense of obtaining broad US patents while bringing a commercial product to market – that had been more than a challenge. The challenge included Mordoff’s unwillingness to take in investors because potential investors expected to see numbers and rapid return on investment multiplied several fold and perhaps even replacing Mordoff with someone’s cousin to run the business into the ground.
But then MicroSquash Corporation had launched a commercial version of its own, which infringed Mordoff’s patents in several different but important ways. Both David and Mordoff subsequently learned that large corporations don’t often bother to investigate whether their proposed products might violate existing patents before launching them. Of course, trying to wade through the huge volume of existing patents worldwide and carefully consider their elaborate and sometimes poorly written provisions, would likely retard product development and cost time and money. Or corporations might rely on being protected by the huge expense of litigating against a well-funded corporation should infringement or alleged infringement become a relevant factor. These protections were fortified by anti-individual, inventor changes under the US patent laws weaseled into the patent laws by Barry Hussein Obama – even if a plaintiff has threaded his way through a phalanx of patent examiners and received issued patents, a judge in a patent infringement case has the option of sending the patents in question to an entirely new set of patent examiners for re-evaluation, perhaps only to get the case off her calendar. That injects additional delay, expense and uncertainty into the formidable list of challenges for individual inventors, all while the infringing party’s cash register keeps ringing up sales. As he carefully reread the sixth draft of Mordoff’s complaint, David Garvey decided it was time to file it and get the show on the road.”
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