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At the last Shareholder Meeting, I had the opportunity to engage in a conversation with Patriot President/CEO Mr. Pohl and one of his former hardware engineers.  An Engineer that Mr Pohl ultimately had to “let go” do to down-sizing.   Despite being a former employee, he proudly wore an old  Patriot Scientific company T-Shirt to the shareholder meeting.  During the conversation Mr Pohl expressed his gratitude for the former employees’ contributions and he became visibly nostalgic for the days when the Patriot office was busy and the cubes were not empty.

 

PUBPAT does not tell you that Patriot did try to refine, distribute and license their product for many years.  Rather, PUBPAT equates Patriot to a “cockroach.”  Employees and folks that were behind the company gave their hearts and souls to make Patriot a successful company.  I’m surprised that they didn’t call Patriot a “Patent Troll” as well.

 

This former employee was “let go” due to Patriot’s inability to sell and market their microprocessor against the strong-arm Guerilla Marketing tactics of Intel, IBM, Sony, Matsushita, Pansonic, etc.  Due to these strong-arm tactics, Patriot’s arm was forced to pursue this legal alternative;  it’s great that companies like Microsoft seldom  or never have to initiate a patent lawsuit.  Patriot is no Microsoft. 

 

PUBPAT will never understand that innovation requires a system that honors intellectual property. PUBPAT has a social agenda; and they are being leveraged since they are interested in the distribution of innovation to the masses with very little emphasis around ownership. 

 

Patriot must speak up now!