3/12/11

WWTED: What Would Thomas Edison Do?

From America's beginning, the inventor was highly regarded. Now these unsung heroes are under attack. Phyllis Schlafly explains:

"The Democratic Senate is itching to pass a bill that will mean death for innovation, which is the backbone of American economic growth. Senator Patrick Leahy's (D-VT) bill, S.23, is called patent reform, but it's not reform; it will kill innovation by litigation.

Now that the globalists have transferred millions of good American jobs to Asians willing to work for as little as 30 cents an hour with no benefits, all we have left to maintain and restore our economic well-being is our innovation superiority. The United States is the world leader in inventing useful and important products and processes, while other countries build their economies by copying our innovations.

The mainspring of our success is the American patent system, unique when the Founding Fathers put it into the U.S. Constitution even before freedom of speech and religion, and still unique today. Unfortunately, some globalists outside and even inside the United States want to reduce the American standard of living.

The core of our time-tested patent-granting system goes under the label first-to-invent, plus a one-year grace period. It is only common sense that the patent should be granted to the first person who actually invents something, and our Constitution specifically identifies 'inventors' as the owner of the property right."

Keep reading here and learn why "harmonization" signals the death of innovation.

In the photo: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison who once filed a patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights." Are you stockpiling incandescent light bulbs?

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