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Jeffrey A. Killian
Founder
Automated Benefit Solutions, LLC
Jeffrey A. Killian is the founder of Automated Benefit Solutions, LLC and has 50 years of experience in Social Security benefits administration and patient liabilities. He has consulted Governors, Cabinet Members and other policy makers on issues of Social Security, Medicaid and other third-party reimbursements. Although holding several national accomplishments, Mr. Killian considers his biggest privilege and accomplishment to be both a servant and an advocate for people with disabilities.
Recent Articles by Jeffrey A. Killian
As Congress Considers PERA, It Should Allow the Frustrated Inventor to Be Heard
A person recently approached me at church with excitement regarding a software process he developed. His company was so pleased with the result that it is filing a patent, listing him as the inventor. This person knew that I had some kind of patent backstory, so he asked for my thoughts. My name is Jeffrey A. Killian, and I am the patent applicant in the Federal Circuit Court case # 2021 -2113 (In Re: Killian). I took no pleasure in telling my friend at church that his patent application will be rejected. Plus, the official notice will have my precedential case quoted all over his rejection. With friends at church like me, who needs enemies?
Patent Uncertainty: Real Ideas, Real People, Real Harm
Today, the patent system is a very fluid situation due to recent legislation and court decisions that have caused considerable uncertainty and legal maneuvering. As a first-time inventor, I had no idea as to the legal battle in the background regarding what ideas should receive a patent… I am in appeal with the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding whether my invention is routine, conventional or well understood. And that labeling of my invention as being routine, conventional or well understood is in view of submitted evidence on the official record that no one in my field of technology uses my claimed methods, either individually or as a combination. Clearly, there is a problem with the patent system in the United States of America.
Can I hold on long enough until the madness stops?
If someone told me when starting my career in 1976 that I would discover a process that has been beyond the reach of professionals and experts for over 62 years, I would have laughed. If the same person also told me that it would be virtually impossible to protect that discovery with a patent in the United States of America, I would have been equally dismayed. The preceding scenario is exactly what is being experienced by many inventors and me. I am a common person who caught lightning in a bottle with an invention, only to be frustrated by the patent system in the United States and left wondering can I hold on long enough until the madness stops?