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Alan interviews Josh Malone, inventor of Bunch O Balloons. You'll learn about how Josh's Kickstarter campaign sold $1 million and went viral. Josh offers advice to inventors just getting started. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, so you won't miss a single episode. Link to Bunch O Balloons: https://amzn.to/304RDa1  

Bunch O Balloons creator Josh Malone had a patent stolen (costing millions of dollars) so he tells the story about his invention success followed by a patent assassin company stealing his invention!  Josh doesn't give up and his story is inspiring and important. Go to for ways to protect inventors! 

What You Need to Know is the narrative machine is working to tear our country apart! It's been a crazy day in the news but here's the most important thing — the narrative machine is lying about Wyoming and covid and all the rest. Politico — 'We're in trouble': Rural America can't escape Delta. The Narrative Machine is Big Tech, Big Media and Big Government. The latest lie is that those unvaccinated are a threat to other Americans. There are people lying about what's going on and no ones stopping them. These lies are being told to tear America apart! Josh Malone, inventor of Bunch O Balloons, and policy director for US Inventor, gives an update on small businesses, patents, and intellectual property. The freedom of inventors to invent and keep the fruits of their labor is a fundamental pillar of American economic prosperity and everyone should know why! Woody Woodrum, president of the California Screaming Eagles, gives us an update on California politics and what his view is of the upcoming recall vote to replace Governor Gavin “Newsance”!  Wrap up: Sign up for the daily WYNK at proamericareport.com. Also, more on Dominion lawsuits against conservative individuals and news outlets. Plus more from the mail bag! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Josh is well educated how to help people get patent. He went through alot now he helps other people. He wants to make a difference and now working with legislators to do so. ABOUT JOSH MALONE:  Josh Malone quit his corporate job in 2006 to take his shot at the Inventor's Dream. Eight years later, savings depleted and kids college unfunded, he took one last swing before trudging back to the corporate world. And hit a homerun with Bunch O Balloons. His solution to the 63-year-old problem of filling and sealing water balloons instantly became the number one selling summer toy. His invention was stolen by a notorious infringer who convinced the USPTO to revoke his patent under a controversial procedure of the 2011 America Invents Act. A brutal and costly legal battle combined with an anti-corruption crusade ultimately resulted in a $31 million award and restoration of his patent rights. He is now a full-time volunteer with the inventor advocacy organization, US Inventor.     ABOUT US INVENTOR: US Inventor is a non-profit association of inventors devoted to protecting the intellectual property of individuals and small companies. It represents its 13,000 inventors and small business members by promoting strong intellectual property rights and a predictable U.S. patent system through education, advocacy, and reform. US Inventor was founded to support the innovation efforts of the “little guy” inventors, seeking to ensure that strong patent rights are available to support their efforts to develop their inventions, bring those inventions to a point where they can be commercialized, create jobs and industries, and promote continued innovation. Bunch O' Balloons creator Josh Malone, spokesman for US Inventor, reveals how a corrupted US Patent Office helps Big Business steal intellectual property and crush the spirit and dreams of America's inventors.   For more than two centuries, the United States patent system has incentivized, protected, and rewarded America's most brilliant innovators by guaranteeing them exclusive ownership and the right to profit from their new life-bettering products and technologies. Fueled by the increased productivity these inventions provided and the jobs they spawned, America flourished and prospered. Tragically, the 200-year-old-mission of the US Patent Office quietly changed with the passage of the 2011 America Invents Act and the creation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).  Now, because of that legislation, the US Patent Office is no longer a place where patents are born -- it's a place where patents belonging to small inventors are taken to die at the hands of big corporations and PTAB administrative judges.   JOSH'S STORY: Josh Malone invented the number one selling outdoor toy Bunch O Balloons, a hose attachment that allows kids to fill up 100 water balloons in under a minute. Shortly after launching his invention and raising close to $1M from 21,000 backers on Kickstarter, a knock-off called Balloon Bonanza was featured in a TV commercial from the “As Seen on TV” company, Telebrands. Emails obtained in court proceedings years after the fact revealed a deliberate scheme – “this is only the first proto so assume this will have 37 filler rods and balloons (or more or less) like theirs and work exactly like the original ‘Bunch of Balloons." More Telebrands knockoffs and a series of injunctions and court appearances followed over the next few years. Telebrands proved itself to be a world class patent infringer. You can go to www.usinventor.org to find out more information and to follow Josh on social medias you can find him as Josh Malone or Josh The Balloon Guy

ABOUT JOSH MALONE Josh Malone quit his corporate job in 2006 to take his shot at the Inventor’s Dream. Eight years later, savings depleted and kids college unfunded, he took one last swing before trudging back to the corporate world. And hit a homerun with Bunch O Balloons. His solution to the 63-year-old problem of filling and sealing water balloons instantly became the number one selling summer toy. His invention was stolen by a notorious infringer who convinced the USPTO to revoke his patent under a controversial procedure of the 2011 America Invents Act. A brutal and costly legal battle combined with an anti-corruption crusade ultimately resulted in a $31 million award and restoration of his patent rights. He is now a full-time volunteer with the inventor advocacy organization, US Inventor. ABOUT US INVENTOR US Inventor is a non-profit association of inventors devoted to protecting the intellectual property of individuals and small companies. It represents its 13,000 inventors and small business members by promoting strong intellectual property rights and a predictable U.S. patent system through education, advocacy, and reform. US Inventor was founded to support the innovation efforts of the “little guy” inventors, seeking to ensure that strong patent rights are available to support their efforts to develop their inventions, bring those inventions to a point where they can be commercialized, create jobs and industries, and promote continued innovation.

Josh Malone invented the number one selling outdoor toy Bunch O Balloons, a hose attachment that allows kids to fill up 100 water balloons in under a minute. Shortly after launching his invention and raising close to $1M from 21,000 backers on Kickstarter, a knock-off called Balloon Bonanza was featured in a TV commercial from the “As Seen on TV” company, Telebrands. Emails obtained in court proceedings years after the fact revealed a deliberate scheme – “[t]his is only the first proto so assume this will have 37 filler rods and balloons (or more or less) like theirs and work exactly like the original ‘Bunch of Balloons.'” More Telebrands knockoffs and a series of injunctions and court appearances followed over the next few years. Telebrands proved itself to be a world class patent infringer.made a mistake”, says Malone. “My patent says that when the balloons are substantially filled with water, they fall off and automatically seal. They paid an MIT professor to testify that no one knows when a balloon is ‘substantially filled with water'. The federal judge and the appeals court found their argument absurd and ruled in my favor”. However, the Telebrands attorneys then brought the case back to the patent office and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. They told the PTAB the same laughable story; Nobody can understand when a balloon is “substantially filled with water”. On the basis of that argument, the PTAB agreed my patent was flawed. The infringing party won and my patent was invalidated.” “PTAB takes an approved patent that you and your investors have risked everything on, then pulls the rug out from under you by invalidating that patent, so the infringer doesn't have to pay for their misdeeds. It's a travesty and something that I am working hard as a volunteer with US Inventor to remedy,” says Malone. “For 200 years America had the best patent system in the world, and we benefited from that for a long time. Now we must acknowledge that we don't have that anymore. If we want it back, we'll have to go get it.”

Bunch O Balloons creator Josh Malone had a patent stolen (costing millions) and the rest of his story is surprising and mirrors big Tech trying to take over everything. His story is inspiring and important. Join the conversation and go to for ways to protect inventors!

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The latest episode of the Clause 8 podcast features an interview with Josh Malone – the inventor of Bunch O Balloons and America’s foremost advocate for reliable patent rights. Josh came up with the idea for Bunch O Balloons to help his kids fill up 100 water balloons in less than one minute. It eventually became the most popular toy in America. However, before Bunch O Balloons even came to market, another company copied it and started selling its own versions of the product. Luckily – or so he thought at the time – Josh filed a patent application for his Bunch O Balloons invention. He did not know the enormous amount of time, money, and luck it would take to successfully enforce patents that covered his invention. This episode tells the story of what it took, including taking a trip to Bentonville, AR in the middle of the night to try to convince Walmart to stop selling knock offs of his product. During this episode, Josh talks about: • getting involved in the making of the documentary Invalidated that featured his story; • the process of innovation that allowed him to invent one of America’s most popular toy products; • strategies that he used to get patent protection for his innovation; • the process of successfully licensing an invention for a physical product; • how the “As seen on TV” company Telebrands copied his product and continued doing so after losing multiple court decisions; • the patent litigation strategy that he pursued to ultimately reach a successful settlement; • the role that the US Patent’s Office played during the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB); • why he decided it was necessary to launch a PR campaign for patent rights and advocate for those rights on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in Washington, DC – including by literally burning patents outside of the US Patent Office; • the enormous financial and psychological toll on inventors trying to enforce patent rights; • the shortcomings of contingency fee arrangements and litigation financing; • advice to other innovators who are thinking about getting patent protection; and • much more!

BUY BUNCH O BALLOONSON AMAZON Josh Malone invented the Bunch O Balloons, a device that allows the user to fill 100 balloons with water and tie them in under a minute. What a great invention…right? If you have ever spent time filling water balloons up…you will agree. Inventors Rights…Sign the Resolution As discussed in this... The post Episode 79…Josh Malone and Bunch O Balloons appeared first on Invention Stories.

Josh Malone American Inventor, Bunch O Balloons Josh Malone quit his corporate job in 2006 to take his shot at the American (Inventor’s) Dream. Eight years later, savings depleted and orthodontics and college unfunded, he took one last swing before trudging back to the corporate world. And hit the homerun with Bunch O Balloons. His solution to the 63 year old problem of filling and tying water balloons instantly became the number one selling spring/summer toy. It was just as quickly knocked off resulting in a patent litigation now totaling 6 patents, 5 patent suits, 5 PTAB petitions/trials, 4 preliminary injunctions, and 8 appeals at the Federal Circuit. He is currently a Fellow with US Inventor working to restore the patent system. The Inventors Launchpad – Roadmap to Success Series is presented by Inventors Launchpad in beautiful Tampa Bay, FL and hosted by Carmine Denisco. Carmine is an accomplished Author, Entrepreneur, Inventor and Co-founder/Managing Partner of Inventors Launchpad. Along with his business partner Rick Valderrama has changed the face of the invention industry and look forward to helping inventors from all over the world move their ideas forward. For more information please visit www.inventorslaunchpad.com

Alan interviews Josh Malone, inventor of Bunch O Balloons. You'll learn about how Josh's Kickstarter campaign sold $1 million and went viral. Josh offers advice to inventors just getting started. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts so you won't miss a single episode. Link to Bunch O Balloons:  https://amzn.to/304RDa1 Give us a Rating & Review.

At least $17 million. That is what my Bunch O Balloons patent has cost so far. It could grow to $50 million. Yes, we are talking about water balloons, not smartphones. How can this be? Because the patent grant issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office means nothing to infringers like Telebrands and Walmart. They simply ignore the patent and rush to take over the market with their knock-offs (Balloon Bonanza in 2015, Battle Balloons in 2016, and Easy Einstein Balloons in 2017). Then they use those revenues to hire attorneys and experts to say the patent is invalid. If the patent owner lacks deep pockets or good lawyers, his patent will not survive. If he does have access to infinite funds, he has about a 5 percent chance of survival thanks to the America Invents Act(AIA) and the USPTO’s implementation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Fortunately, sales of the original Bunch O Balloons have been sufficient to maintain the legal fight. Zuru, the exclusive licensee of my patents, has done an outstanding job producing, marketing and distributing the original Bunch O Balloons. They have cooperated in defending the challenges to the patents brought by the infringers. We have mountains of objective indicia of non-obviousness, including recognition as best selling toy and an admission of copying by the infringer: “[t]his is only the first proto so assume this will have 37 filler rods and balloons…exactly like the original ‘Bunch of Balloons.’” Every fact is in our favor. It is the most cut and dry patent infringement case imaginable. But the outcome is uncertain due to the deteriorated condition of our patent system.     The Inventors Launchpad Network – Is proud to present Tuttle Innovation, Co-Hosted by Warren Tuttle and Carmine Denisco. Warren has served as President of the Board of Directors for the UIA since 2010, and is a prolific speaker at inventor clubs and industry tradeshows, where he shares his his extensive knowledge and expertise to help educate aspiring inventors, patent holders and product developers.  Warren wants to educate inventors using stories from the industries most influential people.