Wow!! Happy New Year, Kosmo! Very nice to see you back here in the forum…we’ve missed you lots!!

Hi Kosmo!

Good to see you!

Hi all,

Happy 2012 :D

Kosmo, Kosmo, Kosmo! I hope you’re REALLY back! Wow, we’ve missed you lime-head!!!

OMG.. KOSMO!!!!!!!!!
Wow, how the heck are ya?
Missed you so much around here!!!!!
Welcome back (hopefully for a long time!!)

Kos!!!!! Hi!!! So nice to see your little lime-helmeted head. :-)))

Of course, always impressed by Louis Foreman and what he does in the name of inventors everywhere. So good to know he’s ON IT.

[quote] Louis Foreman re-appointed to the Patent Public Advisory Committee of the USPTO [/quote]

AFAIK, Mr. Foreman is the first person to serve two consecutive terms on the PPAC. They selected the best man for the job (twice)!

http://www.everydayedisons.com/articleDetail.as...

Looks like I’m a little late….lol but just saw the video, very cool Mr. Formn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfAr8qhRPy4&...!

WOW… you are really incredible… and WE are sooooooooooooo lucky to have you amongst us _~!!!

Thank you soooooooooo much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way to go Louis ! very cool !!! SALUD !! as it is defined by the Spaniards, but used way more by the Italians…

Chalk up another one for EN and all the rest of us independent inventors :)

Its great privilage to have such a Gentleman and an advocate on this side of the fence Great job…..

thank you for all you do….

Nice photo too by the way !

You should be very proud……………:)

Thank you Louis, for all you continue to do for all of us. You are an Everyday Edison my friend.

Very exciting!

What a day Louis must have had! I just saw this picture on my Facebook page earlier. I hope he shares his day at The White House with us :)
VERY COOL.

THANK YOU LOUIS!!!!!!! That is quite an honor. Could you imagine opening you mail to find that letter? WOW! Incredible

How truly exciting…I hope Mr. Foreman is very happy! A true honor to be invited to see President Obama! Congrats to EN!

Thanks Eric!

I hope it’s Awesome news… I don’t know too much about the now law – I will have to read up on it… but, it sounds hopeful.

Wow, this must have been a lifetime experience for Louis. I was in support of this and it’s good to see that it was championed by Louis and finally passed. BTW – Tell Louis do not get too comfortable at the White House (or Washington in general).. we need him at EN/EE. :-)

I’ve been following the tweets all morning from the Commerce Department and the USPTO. I bet they have video available.

Very cool!!! How exciting!!!

Truly a historical moment!

Thank you Eric and Matt for sharing this with us.

Thank you Louis for…well…for being who you are to and for all of us!

Reception ..oh yeah !

Actually it looks like a pen case on the table ( Blue Box ) there so he might have recieved a POTUS Pen .If you ever
notice in the future The POTUS uses each pen when signing any new law.

I’ll ask. I haven’t spoken to him yet. I believe they are en-route to the reception.

Nice ..Impressive !

Did Louis get a Pen ?

Usually the President when signing new laws has several pens and hands them out.

Want to see something cool? Here’s the invitation that Louis received from the President yesterday to attend the signing today!

And there’s Louis, second from the left:

Yes this is also true and I also don’t agree with the rest of the worlds price restrictions myself but a patent is a patent and it does expire and that’s where generic drugs comes into play.The thing is this one drug company gets this deal and no other drug company….It smells !

Yes this isn’t the place to discuss this further and will let it go.

:)

Rainer…I have a lot of thoughts on generic drugs and the length of protection, cost, time, red-tape, liability and our drug companies having to subsidizing the rest of the world’s price restrictions, etc…but I wont get into this now and on these forums.

So what exactly is The US median income as of right now..It keeps changing .

Yes this is true Eric and expected from Washington sadly enough…but this earmark has REPERCUSSIONS
for everyone who needs drugs and will have to pay the higher price as oppose to the generic drug.

And this powerful lawfirm dosn’t have to pay out $214 million in a malpractice suit ?

What’s going on here is what I want to know .

“The House might have sworn off earmarks, but that didn’t stop the chamber from essentially passing one last week that would allow a single drug company to avoid generic competition while saving a powerful law firm from paying out $214 million in a malpractice suit”

Rainer…business as usual in Washington. Chalk one up for lobbyists and special interests. With the good comes the bad.

Consider this fee-reduction benefit for independent inventors:
“Among the changes proposed in the America Invents Act, which was passed by the Senate in March and by the House in June of this year, is the creation of a “micro-entity” class that will receive the benefit of a 75% reduction in USPTO fees.

Presently, an applicant having “small entity” status receives a 50% fee reduction with the Patent Office. To qualify as a small entity, the applicant must be an individual inventor, a business having less than 500 employees, or a nonprofit organization or university. To claim the new micro-entity status, an applicant would have to not only qualify under the small entity guidelines, but must further assert: that the applicant has been not named as inventor on more than four previuosly-filed US patent applications; that the applicant’s annual income does not exceed three times the US median income; and that the applications is not assigned or subject to be assigned to an entity having an income over three times the US median income."

WOW Louis Foreman Rocks and so does EN !!!

On that note I don’t like what happened at the last minute with this earmark for the bill..very disturbing to say the least….And
the person behind it is very surprising and the rest just caved in.

I thought we were done with earmarks !

See this link

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_146/a_late_ad...