Unraveling the Us Patent System and It's Trolls
Overview
The corruption runs deeper than you'd ever imagine. A multi-billion dollar industry you've never heard of. This is the world Patent Trolls thrive in: A world created for them by our own U. S. Patent system. You can be sued for clicking on a hyperlink, using your own scanner, or sharing your Wi-Fi! It sounds insane, but the reality is even crazier. Patent Trolls look for obvious ideas, patent them, and then sue anyone they claim is infringing on their idea. People's lives and businesses are being destroyed.. and they have no way out. “The Patent Scam” exposes the underbelly of this system, and the people that commit this practice.
Cast
Austin Meyer
Self - Host
Phil Adams
1920s Patent Examiner
Marlon Healey
1920s Shoeshine Boy
Todd A. Moore
Self (as Todd Moore)
Daniel Nazer
Self (Staff Attorney, Eletronic Frontier Foundation)
Craig Smith
New Jersey Plumber
Green Room
How to Deter a Robber
Before Sunset
Phone Booth
From Dusk Till Dawn
The Wages of Fear
The Theory of Everything
The Vow
Ocean's Thirteen
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Danish Girl
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Hail, Caesar!
Fences
J. Edgar
Boyhood
The Lobster
Moulin Rouge!
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