Sorry, given that this is Gult's Gulch I thought it would be a known organization. TAS is The Atlas Society.

The Business Rights Center is the only place I can think of that is absolutely unbiased in its coverage of what's happening in the business world. Plus it is completely unbiased against ANY size business, large or small. As Objectivsts, I believe we need to judge a company by its ethics and by the quality of its products or services. Whether it's large or small shouldn't make the slightest difference. Even small companies can become "crony" capitalists. The site is probably the best source of what the ethics of ALL businesses should be, and of what the government is currently doing to control them.

I agree with you. Except in this case, certain large corporations lobbied heavily against one group-individual inventors. There is a strategy for filing patent applications of someone else's inventions. I call it stealing. Apple pays heftily when it does that, and it has, according to many court cases, done just that. By changing the rule to "first to file," this means even if you were not the inventor, you are assumed to be since you disclosed the invention first within the system. Imagine the little guy who invents the first intermittent windshield wiper. You do not have the financial backing to manufacture this extremely useful invention. But can you think of a major auto manufacturer seeing this as an edge in their market? Most large corporations refuse to sign non-disclosure agreements with inventors pitching their idea. As well, patent applications are published at 18 months, giving large companies an advantage over the individual inventor. They have whole teams of engineers designing all around an idea they wished they owned. Before this change passed, an inventor had remedy in the courts if he/she could prove they thought of the idea first. Now, they don't.