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Craig 07/02/2009 10:56:00 PM

The Primary Principle of Freedom "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson His statement holds so much meanning that he is even telling us the key to America�s future economic success or failure Freedom is far more then waving flags, singing songs and politicians saying �we are great nation of free people�. There are physical principles behind real freedom that if we don�t teach and pass on to our children they will be stolen away by greedy ambitions, without our knowledge. You must know what freedom is first, in order to see when something is chipping away at it. The greatest measure of individual freedom is as Jefferson said; if the average citizen fears their government, they are not free, because tyranny and freedom do not mix; you get one or the other. In article 1 section 8 of the Constitution that Jefferson also wrote: �Congress shall�. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, secure for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.� This established the USPTO (Patent office). Notice the words �authors and inventors� not a word about organizations. This means that the US government is constructional mandated to protect the fresh ideas of the average American citizens first, so they can profit from them and thus build a strong economy from their original ideas. This one aspect is so important because it locks and anchors freedom of speech, thought, and the pursuit of wealth and happiness, together. How well the government protects the products of its average citizen�s minds is the most telling measure of individual freedom, as nothing else could be more valuable then the protected freedom to apply your constructive ideas without fear of the government stopping, draining or even killing you. If the government protects your original works for your benefit, then you live in a free nation. If they won�t then you do not, even if you hear songs about how free you are every day. Above all other measures of freedom this is the one that insures a powerful economy because it constantly fertilizes new innovations so they can grow into new industries to provide good jobs that make people happy, as older ones fade away. If citizens can�t make enough money to live well and buy all the things to make their life more convenient, fun and comfortable then freedom is still being oppressed. However Jefferson and the forefathers� words were somewhat muted for two reasons; First they were dealing with a population that had never known or understood what real freedom is before, and secondly because America remained a hypercritical country after because people could still own people and slaughter them like cattle. Jefferson did try to free all slaves but he could not get enough states to vote �yes� to forming the nation, so he gave in. The words �We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal� were not well supported by the actions of the early American government. This meant that freedom was still reserved for who the government says can have it. Freedom is freedom, make it conditional (beyond not being free to harm others or property), then freedom is no longer a principle it is merely words. It was not until Lincoln fought a war for �personal freedoms for all people� that the principles of equality went into full effect because this action then proved to the citizens and the world that the US Government would actually go to war only so that every American can be a truely free person. Lincoln proved Jefferson�s words, by turning them into real principles for all Americans to see and feel as deeds instead. He also explained real freedom more elegantly then any human ever had before or since when he said: �This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and a government of the people, by the people, for the people, can never perish from the earth.� What happened during the 50 or so years after Lincoln was unprecedented in all of human history. Americans realized that this was far more then words, and this kind of freedom where the people came first had never happened before in human history. The from the poor independent to the finest craftsman American's suddenly had no fear of their government, and tyranny was vertually gone from this nation. Nowhere was this real freedom more visible then at the US patent office. Average citizens realized were living in a nation where their own ideas, if good, can actually go on to make a better world without being stolen or repressed by big powers. The result was a landslide of innovations that came from barns and home labs. But these were not just things, some became the seeds that grew by far the largest middle class the world had ever seen, because by the mid 1900s everyone wanted those independent inventions. Lincoln lunched an intellectual storm of protected ideas, that 100 years later was allowing average Americans to live better then kings did at Lincoln�s time. A fantastically powerful economy was simply the direct result of proving freedom for individual Americans. However something changed around the time a couple of high school drop outs took to flight. The patent office which was just basically a tool to verify uniqueness began verifying many other things, as they developed a huge book of new �Patent Regulations�. Many of these regulations were obviously to prevent future competition for existing manufactures so not only did the uniqueness stop being the patent deciding factor, the whole patent process became a very expensive legal endeavor, that the average Joe could not afford, so they either abandoned their dreams or went broke in legal fees. That landslide of new independent seeds for new industries went from full blast to stopped. Many independent people continued to get patents, but now for simple changes to other things or for worthless ideas, but those new industry seeds, that could create many new jobs and increase competition for existing companies virtually vanished. Almost every huge consumer manufacturing plant operating in the mid 1900s was the result of an independent patent not an organazation but now they had reduced the independent contrabutions to new pie pans or fish lures. Today virtually no one, even President Obama seems to have a clue that the USPTO is still rejecting the majority of independent patent applications, and this is after the inventor paid for a pro patent search to know for sure their invention isunique. The USPTO even reports most of its numbers based on �applications received�, not patents issued, which basically makes their stats meaningless. I only discovered that most independent patents are are rejected while reading legal web sites stating this s the best reason to hire a good Patent Attorney, not as a complaint. The last site I read that at is ehow.com Because the USPTO requires that all apps first have a �Patent Search� conducted first I did not think these rejections were from duplication. So I asked a patent Attorney what is the most common reason he sees for independent denials, and he said �duplication is almost never the objection, but something called �Too obvious� almost always is. Basically they find another invention and say that the new one would have been obvious to the other inventor even if they share no utility whatsoever. I did find the USPTO claims to have patented millions of independent devices so if that is true then millions of others have been denied. They invest no taxpayer's money in approvals so they should all be approved. I called the USPTO an asked them to name just one patent from the last 75 years that grew a new American industry from just an average Joe inventor and the best they could come up with was the� intermittent windshield wiper�, which was just a change to an existing switch. The car club, new fishing lures, or a new shape for a flyswatter are not growing new industries, and they are generally built in a cheep labor nations anyway. Then I asked them about why they deny most applications and they just hung up on me. Because products have a life cycle so do the industries that build them. Many if not most of the US industries that were seeded in that time after Lincoln are now gone or on government life support, and this is because of a simple loss of individual freedoms that happened about 100 years ago, and by now has blocked countless new industries from opening. Average Joe inventors are not industrialists, they don�t have that money, they are people who see how to fill a need, they need investors take their invention seeds and grow them into new industries. However without the patent, investors cannot own the marketing rights so any manufacturer can clone the invention and take the markets, so investors do not invest in the inventions they invest into marketing rights provided by the US patent. The government does not even hunt for infringment, or place violators in jail, the patent holder must at their own expense file sute for damages. A patent costs the government nothing to issue, it costs the taxpayers more to reject because the office may also have to defend their action in appeal. This means that with every rejection, likely several million in the last 100 years, a chance for private investment in America�s industrial future, is simply prevented by a clog of regulations that are unconstitutional. If they have only issued 1,000,000 rejections and industrial seed patents are only 1%, then the patent restrictions have blocked 10,000 new American industries. What would today�s economy be like with even 100 more industries? Hopefully now you see that freedom is far more then words and if we don�t understand what it is we will lose it, along with our middle class jobs. The good news is there may be 20,000 independent inventors right now arguing no wins battle with the USPTO. So this problem is one that if only enough Americas learn about it, it can be rapidly restored. What frightens me is I have spoken with maybe a dozen independent inventers with bazar rejection stories, yet I could not find thes kind of these stroies floating around the media. Maybe they just don't cover them but with likely millions of them it seems odd, kind of that same fear Jefferson mentioned. For the first hundred and fifty years of this nation people and newspapers would have fought to protect the real principles of freedom, but in today�s �Political Correctness�, (play along society) I feel strangely alone taking on this issue.I realize that no politics can be "correct" unless they defend personal freedoms of the people above all else. If I have to die for something I can�t think of anything better. I don't live in Texas but what I see in Texans are people that will still stand up fight for freedom, and they don't give 2 craps for being herded around by "political correctness", not many pansies in Texas. I have much more at my bog http://uncloginnovations.blogspot.com/ Craig