Paul Morinville
Paul Morinville is Managing Director of US Inventor, Inc., which is an inventor organization working in Washington DC and around the US to advocate for strong patent protection for inventors and startups. Paul has been walking the halls of Congress knocking on doors and sitting down with hundreds of offices to explain the damage suffered by inventors due to patent reforms. Paul is an independent inventor with dozens of patents and pending patent applications in enterprise software. He is also CEO of OrgStructure, LLC, an early stage enterprise middleware provider in Northwest Indiana.
Posts by Paul Morinville
Apple Removes ‘Minor Functionality’ from iPhone in Response to Chinese Injunction
On December 10, 2018, a Chinese court granted Qualcomm an injunction against Apple that stops sales and imports of most iPhones in China. On December 12, Apple announced that as …
A Journey Through the Chinese Patent System: The differences in how patent rights are treated
The trade dispute between the US and China started with a US accusation of intellectual property theft on the part of China. Is China really “stealing” intellectual …
A Decade Of US Patent Reform Must Be Undone
How ironic is it that the infringer lobby – the very people trying to weaken the patent system and who ignore the patent rights of others through a …
The Petri Dish Effect will keep Technology in China for Generations
Wealth in Silicon Valley created and then funded more startups, and the cycle continued. It was like a petri dish, only with a multiplication of startups instead …
The U.S. Patent System, not China’s IP Policies, is the Reason Behind America’s Decline in Global Competitiveness
Several months ago, the Trump Administration launched an investigation into Chinese trade policies that are responsible for expropriating American intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights). This investigation is …
Why the IP system works against the small
The decision whether to secure technology using a trade secret or a patent hinges as much on the technology as it does on access to capital. Small …
Is a ‘Bad Patent’ really that bad?
Here we go again with a new villain, the bad patent. If a patent is a bad patent, there must be a negative economic effect. But what …
PTAB Facts: An ugly picture of a tribunal run amok
69% of cases reaching a final decision by the PTAB have all claims invalidated. 82.5% of patents reviewed by PTAB in a final decision are found defective... As the …
Will the Supreme Court continue to be influenced by patent reform?
Invariably, the Supreme Court takes a provision or two from pending legislation and makes it law. Will they do the same now that pro-patent reform is actually …
Patent Reform: U.S. Inventor Act goes to Congress
This week US Inventor, an inventor organization working in Washington DC and around the US to advocate for strong patent protection for inventors and startups, rolled out …
Tax Reform will Harm Inventors, High Tech Start-ups
More disturbing than the harmful effects the proposed changes would have – this signals a continuing approach toward patent rights as not being a property right, which contradicts …
All patent infringement is willful patent infringement
The reality created by eBay in light of the AIPA is simple: If you scrape an invention off the USPTO website and massively commercialize it, you get …
Native Americans Set to Save the Patent System
Native American tribal sovereign immunity thwarts both of these dilatory infringer tactics and repositions the negotiation to where it needs to be – outside of the courthouse. The …
The failed PTAB experiment has been a colossal mistake
The five year experiment of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is a colossal mistake. It is a failure to inventors, startups, early stage investors, job …
Issa seems to believe patents are an entitlement, not a property right
For the first 220 years of United States black letter law and precedent based directly on the U.S. Constitution, patents are property rights. Even the Republican Party …
