2026-05-22T09:12:45-04:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 812812367 National Innovation Association Inc NATI 9728769613 PO BOX 2273 Clearwater FL 337572273 Randy Landreneau Director 7277443748 2026-05-25 false 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X X 108000 X 108000 0 0 0 108000 96943 7537 104480 3520 3624 0 7144 3624 7144 3624 7144 3624 7144 Bring inventors together and help them through outreach education pro bono legal work research advocacy and information regarding the system and their rights including USPTO and FOIA requests for their benefits. In the interest of helping inventors through research advocacy and information regarding the system and their rights National Innovation Association funded a number of FOIA requests in order to identify bonuses paid to Administrative Patent Judges APJs at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board PTAB of the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO. This is important to inventors because the PTAB is used by those accused of patent infringement to invalidate the patents in question. Inventors are too often forced into a PTAB trial rather than having their day in a real court with a jury. The results at the PTAB are universally considered by inventors to be unjust and unfair. What was found was that the bonuses paid to APJs were often more than what was allowed by the rules and that there was the appearance of bonuses being greater when patents were invalidated. These requests required appeals to obtain information that was needed and that increased the legal costs involved. 78500 78500 78500 Randall Landreneau Director 5 0 0 0 Josh Malone Director 1 0 0 0 Steve Lyon Director 1 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false Aaron Ammerman 104 Lower Grouse Ridge Road BEECH MOUNTAIN NC 28604 9728769613 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 100 100 320000 215000 108000 643200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 320000 215000 108000 643200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 643200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 320000 215000 108000 643200 1 0 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Information Technology, $2508.00| Meetings, $4011.00| Bank Fee, $345.00| Supplies, $673.00|