. >> my name is alan beckley. i'm inventor and today i'm burning my band along with my colleagues before the ptab burns up for all of us which we've already seen happening. we need to sport patent rights in the united states. they have been strong in the past. they need to again be strong in the future. and to legislatures and public knowledge, we can address, and then common fix the are destroying patents in front of a three-judge panel. it's called the ptab. >> this isn't about laws or legal matters for me. this is about my family. my family sacrifice for me to invent, to get my patent. and the fact that i can do anything about it, the fact that there's no way for me to defend it to get the money that i am owed for it, it doesn't make any sense. why had a patent in the first place? that's why this patent is being burned. i'm not a corporation. i'm not a troll. my patent says anthony brown, that's it. there's nobody else. the fact that i can't do anything with it makes it feel like i wasted my time and that's not