I am furious and appalled a the short-sightedness of this feature in your publication. Have you always been involved in such a poor practice as this? Have you ever spoken to any of these inventors, such as David Hall, and discovered how they feel about this feature? As a filer of recent patents I am furious that you would undermine my company by allowing competition to view my patent and perhaps seek to circumvent a patent on my invention before I even have time to bring it to market. Do you think this helps the Utah economy? This is a horrible lame- brained idea about which I intend to speak to my Zions branch manager, and then follow up with my executive banker.

Whoever decided upon such a poor idea must not be aware of the ease with which a patent may be circumvented and marketed from China or other third world country. Having done quite a bit of business in China I am fully aware of their resources and will to copy, and your wonderful service provides a leg up for anyone wishing to harm a small Utah business. It takes will and guts to invent and patent a new idea; not so much to breach a patent and copy a concept in a foreign plant, or are you somehow so provincial as to be blind to this threat? Small business is not well served by your ill concieved “Competitive Insight” which does nothing but betray the Utah economy and your customers. As a very old customer who has run several businesses out of Zions Bank, and is now running another start up (and is also preparing to file another patent), I am seriously considering moving to a bank that has a clue. I can hardly beleive that this is the same bank that dared to ask me to oppose Credit Unions not long ago because of unfair competition.(?) Please cease and desist such a poorly concieved practice as this feature.

Nick Bigney
President, CEO
Diversified Spares Inc