@@priceofiron6900 ironically Disney lobbied so Mickey Mouse wasn’t copyrighted for being too close to steamboat Willie. They made SW public domain . Then went on to secure Mickey Mouse for eternity.
@@CraftyF0X Ok, Zoomer. No one is going to give you free stuff because you cant deal. Better stop hoping for magic communism and learn a skill, and then Capitalism wont be "such a mess" for you.
@@WillmobilePlus The most successful people in Capitalism have no skills. What they have is a lot of money that they use to hire people who have skills, then hire lawyers to screw them over so they don't have to pay them, or can fire them and hire someone cheaper. Having a 'skill' just makes your butthole a target for capitalists to penetrate you.
A patent troll once came after my hiptang, But I explained that I had smoked the Hiptang, and it was now lost to time. So we both sang a sad dirge to the lost Hiptang and in doing that he became my brudder. Oh, brudder my brudder.
I gotta say I love how sincere you always are your dry humor and wit are also wonderful what i want to say is thank you for all the smiles warming my Face.
Georg, you are probably aware of this, but the hairy fat guy in the cheap plastic kiddie pool is a parody of the beautiful woman in the opulent marble tub scene in the movie "The Big Short". She explains some aspect (I forget what) of the 2008 mortgage crisis. Love your channel. Regards from Florida.
This channel is at a point now where I could not tell whether this was going to be about how patents are a scam or about a movie. Sadly, it was the latter. I would have really enjoyed the former. Not to say I didnt enjoy this, though.
I have not seen "The Patent Scam". But I work in IT and patents and copyrights have been misapplied to IT software and hardware in ways that negatively affect innovation and the public for years and years. My take from your critique (again, having not seen it ) is that this documentary does not effectively communicate what it intends to prove.
Patents and copyrights were unethical from their inception. And if you examine the precursors to patents and copyrights, you'll see they were all about the abuse of power. There's no way to strip patents and copyrights of their essential nature, which is to cause harm and destruction.
@@MatthewStinar They aren't unethical from their inception. If you put the time, effort and resources into the creation of something useful, what would be unethical is a big company with more money than god swooping down and simply stealing that from you.
"If I had a penny for every person I know who looks, acts and speak like Ned Flanders, I'd have two pennies. Which isn't a lot but it's still weird that it happened twice."
Already happened. The new patent holder pleaded with the FDA to leave him be, explaining that he'd never heard of HipTang and it was just an innocent attempt to con people with frivolous patent lawsuits, but to no avail; the current holder has even turned to publicizing HipTang on this channel in desperation, hoping to dupe other patent trolls into repeating his error.
There is substance in that documentary about the patent system usage. Maybe because of that movie the system changed a bit for the better (search for: supreme court ends texas grip patent cases). And why do trivial patents exist? I have seen mechanical engineers spending time redesigning a product, because the company was sued using a one sentence from a patent: for 2 axis movement in a distinct type of device: putting the motor moving the second axis on the first axis. They just selected one of the obvious solutions. They did not steal intellectual property. Another case: using Ethernet inside a distinct type of machine was patented. So that company had to redesign the electronics to another internal bus (instead of fighting the patent for being trivial). I'm not sure, but the civilization might be better off without patents.
"This has cost me time that I'll never get back; but, am I the only one in this wretched situation?" How I felt watching the last season of Game of Thrones.
I remember there being a really good episode of This American Life about fraudulent patent lawsuits. Anyone interested in the subject, maybe listen to that instead?
The metaphor about the garbage patents is actually pretty good: it isn't really the troll "leaving out the garbage", it's the broad corporate incentive structure to patent anything and everything they can because they have no idea what could be useful to claim ownership of later, but they damn sure well want to be the first one to have it written down that they own it. This leads to such arbitrarily nonspecific things so general as to be understood as "owning the telephone". And anyone can later just buy bulk junk patents from companies that go under. Those are the trolls, attracted by the garbage.
What exactly do you want from the guy - he's an engineer, not a filmmaker, and he probably couldn't afford to hire one after the legal bills. From the looks of it, for a complete amateur, he didn't do that bad of a job.
I remember watching it and my only complaint was that he made it sound like there could exist a good patent. Patents are like bombs: they're either dormant or destructive, but never constructive.
@@sunnohh The fact that better policies would benefit him is irrelevant. He's advocating for better policies for everyone. He's advocating for removal of this legal extortion. I'm literally astounded that people like you are defending this parasitic practice.
@@MatthewStinar I bet you don’t like copyrights either cause you don’t like paying for the music you listen to. you want the musicians to work for free
He calls himself lots of things but Inventor is not one of them. He claims poverty and yet he flies a private plane all over the country with a film crew in tow. The editing is the most deceptive and disingenuous I’ve ever seen. A crafty editor can make someone seem as they’re saying the opposite of what they said.
Did you know that someone in the early 2000s was able to successfully patent drop down navigation, ya know hovering your mouse over a link and having a sub-menu pop up? They go around trying to get money out of anyone they think is too small to fight back. Meanwhile the patent never should have been issued, and should be easily nullified if anyone with some money did the work. In general, software patents are bull***t.
I've had to watch this twice just to understand what was going on... and now I too can utter the immortal words, "This has cost me time that I'll never get back, but... am I the only one in this wretched situation?"
The problem is really bad but this does not address them unfortunately, Adobe literally owns ways to digitally modify an image and charges exorbitant amounts so people can use the features they're locking down
Austin Meyer is a legit dev of a highly esteemed flight simulator series, X-Plane (currently in its 11th release). Reportedly he had many problems with patent trolls through the years. It seems this is another unfortunate example of when a very knowledgeable person's skills at one field (simulator development) do not translate to another (investigative documentary).
I honestly get sick of hearing people giving multiple analogies of a topic or concept when I understood it in the first place, and therefore did not need an analogy.
For example, small companies get sued all the time for putting package tracking on their website. Seems like a good idea at first, any business owner could be forgiven for thinking it's fine to provide such a service. But a lot of businesses are closed down from the costs.
Obviously Georg finds the Patent Scam film to be terrible movie making. However, it seems that Georg is also very unfamiliar with the software patent troll problem. The thing that might have similarities for a TH-camr would be the demonetized video and copyright strike problem which can be randomly applied. * For people who write software, they experience a randomness with being sued by patent trolls. - Behind those patent troll lawsuits is a money making scam located in a court district in East Texas which makes money over having multiple software patent lawsuits in their courts. There are companies just made up of lawyers which make their money filing these frivolous lawsuits and getting software companies to pay settlements.
Ric Richardson, the patent holder in this story, has two Australian Story episodes about him. Very interesting to see his perspective on it (two sides of a story, etc.) To sum it up, Ric initially made an anti-piracy system(idea to patent) and licenced it to IBM in the 90's. Eventually he moved to USA where tech companies are more prevalent. He licenced his technology to companies and defended and succeeded in protecting his patent against Microsoft. The eventual request for X-Plane (the computer flying simulator) to pay $50,000 (~1.5% of revenue) to licence the idea of program protection via the patent is what was asked, I'm unsure if this was per year or a one time payment. The questions that I ask myself is, Is it fair that an inventor of something not produced be left out to dry (no compensation) if another company is going to use that idea and produce a product using it? The main defence of this would be in medical patents. I'm not defending Ric Richardson or condemning him. I think Will Ferrell has not thought so much about it and has presented his case in a bad way with poor research and sounds like a bit of a baby on my first impression, he might be a top bloke. Something to think about, or just watch another youtube video and forget about it. Thanks Georg for all the great content!
Imagine if you had a TH-cam channel and then Billy comes in and does a TH-cam channel and then sues you for using WiFi...That's exactly what's going on now in the steel industry.
It’s weird how, in America, 20 years is “too long” for a a patent, yet death plus 90 years isn’t long enough for copyright.
Mickey Mouse has been lobbying harder than Silicon Valley I guess
No one would write anything if it didn't benefit their great-great-great-grandchildren.
@@priceofiron6900 ironically Disney lobbied so Mickey Mouse wasn’t copyrighted for being too close to steamboat Willie. They made SW public domain . Then went on to secure Mickey Mouse for eternity.
Copyright being low stakes allowed people to be retarded with extending it to basically forever ÷
Probably because inventions can have greater importance to the world than someone being able to sell their own mickey mouse merch.
“McKool Smith.” Is an awesome fake patent troll name. Seeing that name on the door placard made me chuckle.
I did hear that McKool Smith was planning to marry Big Tits McGee, while dual wearing white rimmed sunglasses at the ceremony
"Stands against shenanigans and malarkey". What about tomfoolery, Georg?!
So I'm free to do some chicanery, then?
Thank the Lord for that, gotta go stick the Whatchamacallit in the doohickey.
Then I take it monkeyshines and tommyrot are completely out of the question?
@@shanewright2772 Of course, I'm not even sure why you thought to ask.
@@shanewright2772 that depends on Who's Playing 1st and What's on 2nd.
Took me legit 5min to realize that's not the will Ferrell I had in mind 🤣
It was extremely confusing to listen to this without watching the video haha
Until i read this comment i thought that it was maybe some movie that Will Farrell had made that i missed.
Me too.. I was wondering why he kept calling him will Ferrell
I'm laughing....because I still don't know why Gerog was calling him Will Ferrell...
in all seriousness, software patents are a mess
Intellectual property as a concept is a mess
@@guy-sl3kr Capitalism as an economical system is a mess.
@@CraftyF0X Ok, Zoomer. No one is going to give you free stuff because you cant deal. Better stop hoping for magic communism and learn a skill, and then Capitalism wont be "such a mess" for you.
@@WillmobilePlus ok boomer
@@WillmobilePlus The most successful people in Capitalism have no skills. What they have is a lot of money that they use to hire people who have skills, then hire lawyers to screw them over so they don't have to pay them, or can fire them and hire someone cheaper. Having a 'skill' just makes your butthole a target for capitalists to penetrate you.
A patent troll once came after my hiptang, But I explained that I had smoked the Hiptang, and it was now lost to time.
So we both sang a sad dirge to the lost Hiptang and in doing that he became my brudder.
Oh, brudder my brudder.
The best Will Farrell performance in years! 2 thumbs up/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!
11:48 "I stand with Will Ferrell against both shenanigans and malarkey" is one of the funniest lines I've heard in a while.
I just couldn't stop laughing at the casual way he just calls this random dude Will Ferrell
Ole Georg is looking to patent Hip-Tang. He is doing his due diligence.
😂 brilliant!
Hip-Tang! It’s unique.
thatll be the hiptang *patent pending (nothing else gives you aids as well as tinnitus)
Dogs like it. Cats like it.
Patent troll? That'll be the Hip-Tangg
I gotta say I love how sincere you always are your dry humor and wit are also wonderful what i want to say is thank you for all the smiles warming my Face.
Georg, you are probably aware of this, but the hairy fat guy in the cheap plastic kiddie pool is a parody of the beautiful woman in the opulent marble tub scene in the movie "The Big Short". She explains some aspect (I forget what) of the 2008 mortgage crisis. Love your channel. Regards from Florida.
Yeah, I was thinking that. I saw it and was like ... why are they doing a Margot Robbie- Big Short parody? Truly baffling
I had no idea.
The way he pronounces "lawyer" triggers my fight-or-flight insticts.
I thought the T1000 stabbed that guy in the head while he was drinking a paper cup of coffee
*slowly realizes* He IS the T1000
Which one? They are twins.
@@schmitty5461 Mind=blown
THAT's where I know him from! Was driving me insane! Thanks mate!
But most importantly, DID HE CASH IN THE FULL HOUSE????
My dad is a chemist so I had to listen about fraudulent patent problems my whole life - I think I'll pass on this one
This channel is at a point now where I could not tell whether this was going to be about how patents are a scam or about a movie. Sadly, it was the latter. I would have really enjoyed the former. Not to say I didnt enjoy this, though.
Same.
Sad to see how the son of Will Ferrell and Ron Perlman turned out.
Oh my god 🤣
Very interesting thank you Georg your a legend I owe you a beer for all the great content you provide
For anyone asking "whys he calling him Will Ferrell?", read the D
Tbf the director looks a bit like a chubby Will Ferrell.
Thanks - I honestly thought for a while, that they did a great make up job with Will Ferrell :-D
He was so drunk that he thought it was will farrell? That's hilarious hahah
Wait, he ain't?!
Maybe if Will Ferrell had myopia and fell off every branch on the Michael Moore tree of life.
I have not seen "The Patent Scam". But I work in IT and patents and copyrights have been misapplied to IT software and hardware in ways that negatively affect innovation and the public for years and years. My take from your critique (again, having not seen it ) is that this documentary does not effectively communicate what it intends to prove.
And again, you've not seen it right?
@@motionoftheocean7524 nah I think they have seen it
Well, you were spot on ha.
Patents and copyrights were unethical from their inception. And if you examine the precursors to patents and copyrights, you'll see they were all about the abuse of power. There's no way to strip patents and copyrights of their essential nature, which is to cause harm and destruction.
@@MatthewStinar They aren't unethical from their inception. If you put the time, effort and resources into the creation of something useful, what would be unethical is a big company with more money than god swooping down and simply stealing that from you.
Fantastic, your videos have been great lately
This latest batch of videos has been NEXT LEVEL. Please keep it up.
I'm disappointed at how relentlessly people keep calling analogies metaphors in this video.
"A loyer"
Lawd give me the strength-
I've seen two guys in my life who looked, acted, and spoke startlingly like Ned Flanders. One lives in South Texas, and the other is this man.
"If I had a penny for every person I know who looks, acts and speak like Ned Flanders, I'd have two pennies. Which isn't a lot but it's still weird that it happened twice."
Hi-diddly-ho, troll-a-rino!
I can't until someone tries to patent troll GRS on that Hip Tang patent
Hip tang makes the trolls go away 🧟🔥🤔😅
Already happened. The new patent holder pleaded with the FDA to leave him be, explaining that he'd never heard of HipTang and it was just an innocent attempt to con people with frivolous patent lawsuits, but to no avail; the current holder has even turned to publicizing HipTang on this channel in desperation, hoping to dupe other patent trolls into repeating his error.
There is substance in that documentary about the patent system usage. Maybe because of that movie the system changed a bit for the better (search for: supreme court ends texas grip patent cases).
And why do trivial patents exist? I have seen mechanical engineers spending time redesigning a product, because the company was sued using a one sentence from a patent: for 2 axis movement in a distinct type of device: putting the motor moving the second axis on the first axis. They just selected one of the obvious solutions. They did not steal intellectual property. Another case: using Ethernet inside a distinct type of machine was patented. So that company had to redesign the electronics to another internal bus (instead of fighting the patent for being trivial). I'm not sure, but the civilization might be better off without patents.
I just found this channel and I am in love with your content my dude! Gonna watch all your videos today, thanks for your work!!
Thanks, enjoy! I'd probably skip the podcast though, it sucks.
"This has cost me time that I'll never get back; but, am I the only one in this wretched situation?"
How I felt watching the last season of Game of Thrones.
I remember there being a really good episode of This American Life about fraudulent patent lawsuits. Anyone interested in the subject, maybe listen to that instead?
Watch this then listen to that for full exposure
Sitting here puffing on some of that ol Hip-Tang™ and I couldn't figure out why anchorman never appeared
Maybe that's why this guy got patent trolled, they thought it was the other, richer guy.
The metaphor about the garbage patents is actually pretty good: it isn't really the troll "leaving out the garbage", it's the broad corporate incentive structure to patent anything and everything they can because they have no idea what could be useful to claim ownership of later, but they damn sure well want to be the first one to have it written down that they own it. This leads to such arbitrarily nonspecific things so general as to be understood as "owning the telephone". And anyone can later just buy bulk junk patents from companies that go under. Those are the trolls, attracted by the garbage.
What exactly do you want from the guy - he's an engineer, not a filmmaker, and he probably couldn't afford to hire one after the legal bills. From the looks of it, for a complete amateur, he didn't do that bad of a job.
The film making isn’t the point, its the fact he is propagandizing his personal profit as good public policy
I remember watching it and my only complaint was that he made it sound like there could exist a good patent. Patents are like bombs: they're either dormant or destructive, but never constructive.
@@sunnohh The fact that better policies would benefit him is irrelevant. He's advocating for better policies for everyone. He's advocating for removal of this legal extortion. I'm literally astounded that people like you are defending this parasitic practice.
@@MatthewStinar I bet you don’t like copyrights either cause you don’t like paying for the music you listen to. you want the musicians to work for free
He calls himself lots of things but Inventor is not one of them. He claims poverty and yet he flies a private plane all over the country with a film crew in tow. The editing is the most deceptive and disingenuous I’ve ever seen. A crafty editor can make someone seem as they’re saying the opposite of what they said.
The perfect fruit to pick…..a-diddly.
pretty good pull, tbh
My favorite anime is "Howl's Moving Castle"!
@@thejudgmentalcat 🤗
Did you know that someone in the early 2000s was able to successfully patent drop down navigation, ya know hovering your mouse over a link and having a sub-menu pop up? They go around trying to get money out of anyone they think is too small to fight back. Meanwhile the patent never should have been issued, and should be easily nullified if anyone with some money did the work.
In general, software patents are bull***t.
I've had to watch this twice just to understand what was going on... and now I too can utter the immortal words, "This has cost me time that I'll never get back, but... am I the only one in this wretched situation?"
I can't believe I actually saw this. He's right: it's _The Room_ of documentaries!
Frank Reynolds has been expanding his 'Egg' product line, I see
So Georg, what's your pick for the best of the worst?
Underrated comment right here.
I had to legitimately check the internet to see if that was in fact Will Ferrell committing to a Borat like character.
That would be hilarious 😆
Hi diddley ho neighboroonie, it isn't the Ned Flanders documentary we want it's the Ned Flanders documentary we need.
The problem is really bad but this does not address them unfortunately, Adobe literally owns ways to digitally modify an image and charges exorbitant amounts so people can use the features they're locking down
He’s New Egg. 🥚
Right on brotha, im drunk while viewing this man, keep fighting the good fight
This was amazing. I would love to see you analyze more documentaries.
The bath scene makes me think he trying to make something in the style of The Big Short
13:43 I think this is a spoof of the Margot-Robbie-in-a-bubble-bath scene from the Big Short.
US Patent Law isn't broken. It's working exactly as intended. The government is great at removing paths to financial independence.
You've been on a roll lately
Am I the only one who thinks that last metaphor was actually perfectly apt?
This guy is a real life Jordan Peele character.
I remember when Adam Carrola got sued for podcasting. It was out of Texas also
This is golden. I'm too stupid to understand everything, but it's golden.
Man Will Ferrel has gone a weird direction.
Poor Will Ferrell..
I am really high right now, and I feel I need to watch this documentary and this whole film is an absolutely bat shit crazy time.
The X-Plane guy made a movie? Oh my. I love the simulator, but this sounds like a ver special... treat.
How is anyone supposed to know that that's NOT Will Ferrell?
X-Plane is how. I'd be surprised if there isn't an Encyclopaedia Dramatica entry on this guy.
This is the most important documentary of our generation.
"...give greed a bad name..."
Whatever you say, Gordon Gekko. 🤣
i fkn love this channel
Austin Meyer is a legit dev of a highly esteemed flight simulator series, X-Plane (currently in its 11th release). Reportedly he had many problems with patent trolls through the years.
It seems this is another unfortunate example of when a very knowledgeable person's skills at one field (simulator development) do not translate to another (investigative documentary).
Oh no…Not across the street from the courthouse.
It's like Brazil, in real life.
Halfway in Georg. This is your best work yet. Wanna talk about Stalker sometime?
I honestly get sick of hearing people giving multiple analogies of a topic or concept when I understood it in the first place, and therefore did not need an analogy.
"Bath tub segment"
I'm sold.
Can we get back to movies and nice things rather than our quick march to extinction?
Yes we can. *Terms and conditions may vary.
I fail to see how those two subjects aren't one and the same.
I appreciate the "by the silvery moon" instrumental that scores your vid!
bwhahahaha. We love you Georg. Also, where is the puppy?
i ddid a lil laugh
very fantastic thanks georgio
:-)
Still waiting for the bombshell...
When I saw the aircraft door closeup I thought it was going to be a gyroplane and got really excited before it cut to just a boring airplane.
I kinda understood the metaphors. They are still convoluted, but I got them
This could rival Buck Breaking as a hilariously weird documentary.
I haven’t even watched yet and I left a comment. Patent pending.
That's dumb
For example, small companies get sued all the time for putting package tracking on their website. Seems like a good idea at first, any business owner could be forgiven for thinking it's fine to provide such a service. But a lot of businesses are closed down from the costs.
Golden last second quote.
Tommy Wiseau actually made a documentary but i can't find it anywhere online :(
Meet the new egg, same as the old egg.
Analogy time : this video is like when you drink a couple of bottles of hiptang and you see faces talking to you in the windows, imagine that.
X-plane is actually pretty good.
The guy looks like Ron Jaworski's shady half brother.
Doesn’t look like Will Ferrell to me.
That makes it even funnier lol
The man is a Goddamn character actor and you will respect his makeup artists' work.
Great idea for the mini series.
May i suggest a patent to that effect?.
Lawyers, Businesses and Abandoned Buildings sounds like a track that didn't make it to Kraftwerk's album, Computer World.
Why does he keep saying Will Ferrel... Did I miss something?
Read the Description.
THank goodness you put 'off' at the end of 'pissed' so I didn't think he was pissed, some people can hide it quite well.
A chimera of Will Ferrell and Ron Perlman
Obviously Georg finds the Patent Scam film to be terrible movie making. However, it seems that Georg is also very unfamiliar with the software patent troll problem.
The thing that might have similarities for a TH-camr would be the demonetized video and copyright strike problem which can be randomly applied.
* For people who write software, they experience a randomness with being sued by patent trolls.
- Behind those patent troll lawsuits is a money making scam located in a court district in East Texas which makes money over having multiple software patent lawsuits in their courts. There are companies just made up of lawyers which make their money filing these frivolous lawsuits and getting software companies to pay settlements.
I thought this was gonna talk about how after a patent is filed china just has the same thing made and being sold already?
I watched this doc a while back and it made me spitting mad
Ric Richardson, the patent holder in this story, has two Australian Story episodes about him. Very interesting to see his perspective on it (two sides of a story, etc.) To sum it up, Ric initially made an anti-piracy system(idea to patent) and licenced it to IBM in the 90's. Eventually he moved to USA where tech companies are more prevalent. He licenced his technology to companies and defended and succeeded in protecting his patent against Microsoft.
The eventual request for X-Plane (the computer flying simulator) to pay $50,000 (~1.5% of revenue) to licence the idea of program protection via the patent is what was asked, I'm unsure if this was per year or a one time payment.
The questions that I ask myself is, Is it fair that an inventor of something not produced be left out to dry (no compensation) if another company is going to use that idea and produce a product using it? The main defence of this would be in medical patents.
I'm not defending Ric Richardson or condemning him. I think Will Ferrell has not thought so much about it and has presented his case in a bad way with poor research and sounds like a bit of a baby on my first impression, he might be a top bloke.
Something to think about, or just watch another youtube video and forget about it.
Thanks Georg for all the great content!
I like the way Americans rhyme 'lawyer', and 'warrior'. It's completely mad, but so am I, so let's leave it at that.
The Patent Scam now most popular on Amazon Prime
you wanna bet the concept of Prime Shipping is patented ? I know they have a patent for the '1-click buy now' button concept
still better than Holmes and Watson
This video is a treasure
Newegg is a relatively affordable pc part wholesaler... I think
Thanks for watching this for us 👍
Glad you watched this and explained it to us. Will's voice and exaggeration is very annoying.
Will Ferrell looks like he ate a few too many bees.
Imagine if you had a TH-cam channel and then Billy comes in and does a TH-cam channel and then sues you for using WiFi...That's exactly what's going on now in the steel industry.