Dozier Internet Law: Ronald J. Riley and Inventored.org Sued
Dozier Internet Law has filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, Virginia against Ronald J. Riley and a total of eleven of his businesses and fictitious names. In response to recent legal action by this law firm against Riley, he is attempting to convince the blogosphere that this lawsuit is an attack on his free speech rights. Just the opposite is true. Ronald J. Riley’s misconduct includes his attacking bloggers and blog and forum moderators with threats of getting IP addresses of anonymous bloggers and then tracking them down. Ronald J. Riley is not at all what he seems to be.

The Dozier Internet Law lawsuit resulted from a year long investigation of Ronald J. Riley and took us from interviews with Harvard Law School to Nobel Prize Winners. The discoveries about Mr. Riley along the way are troubling, and as he attempts to continue his attacks on his critics, a well rounded understanding of who Mr. Riley is and how he operates will be profoundly revealing and educational.

Some companies like to characterize inventors and companies who create or own patents and who have the audacity to fight back when those patent pirates try to abscond with their property with the slur “trolls” and for some reason media swallows the troll slur without question. So I am writing yet again to give all another perspective on this issue. It is my hope that you will step back and reconsider the whole issue and consider inventor’s perspective and plight.

A handful of inventors, small to medium sized businesses, and universities have deep enough pockets to be able to handle enforcing their patent rights.

For others the risk of expensive patent litigation forces them to standby while their inventions are appropriated by corporate bullies. Fortunately the market has produced a solution for the higher value takings of inventors property rights.

That solution was originally contingency litigators. But this still required an inventor to raise between $100,000 and $500,000 or more to pay costs. For many that amount was still out of reach and patent pirates got away with raping and pillaging our property and the inventors were usually crushed with barely a whimper.

But then a new business model evolved. It is that business model which has deep enough pockets to take on big companies which those companies call trolls. But let me assure you that one persons “troll” is another persons savior. Many inventors have achieved some measure of justice by partnering with these enforcement companies.

Typically a patent enforcement company gets half of any settlements but they take ALL the risk - risk of anything from two million to tens of millions of dollars. For inventors who cannot raise two or more million dollars to pay for a patent infringement case their choice is half of something or all of nothing. For the majority of inventors their reward for inventing was to get nothing, that is nothing except to be raped and have their property pillaged by a patent pirate.

I am appending a link to a speech made by Ray Niro which may enlighten you about the history of how and why the “troll” slur was coined. It is a story which is
all too common, a story where a patent pirate abuses the process of law to run a small company out of business and then has the audacity to paint their victims as bad players. That company’s patents were purchased because they have real and significant value and the infringer then howled about a company who had not been able to commercialize because of the patent pirate’s conduct.

http://www.piausa.org/patent_reform/articles/raymond_p_niro_08_04_2005

You are right that innovation is threatened, but dead wrong as to what the source of the threat is. It is truly ironic that journalists are being swayed by the PR campaign of patent pirates who are the real threat to those who produce inventions and who cannot continue to produce inventions if patent pirates can simply take what the want with impunity.

Ronald J. Riley,

Speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - http://www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - http://www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - http://www.patentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.

Companies like Cisco try to compensate for their inventive inadequacies with quantity. It is about quantity because they are incapable of producing a significant quality invention. What they have learned the hard way is that quantity is not a substitute for quality except when they are cross licensing with other washed up tech companies who are equally incapable of producing or even recognizing quality.

Inventors spawn new industries, generally at the expense of vested interests. Once an inventor creates a new industry parasites quickly jump in to peal off a bit of the profit for themselves. Those parasites often make big killings and then use their ill gotten gains to first steal other’s patent properties and then to drive the legitimate owner in bankruptcy through abuse of the process of law.

AND, they also become very inventive with the facts for their PR machine.

Personally I view Cisco as one of those parasites. I am not at all surprised that the Troll Tracker (Rick Frenkel) is employed by Cisco. Has anyone seen him express even one itty bitty creative thought?

Ronald J. Riley,

Speaking only on my own behalf.
Affiliations:
President - http://www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Executive Director - http://www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - http://www.patentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.