New York Times:
The nation’s current patent system is a drain on entrepreneurship and small-business growth, a new study claims.
Amid the increasing complexity of patent legislation, most patents today fail to meet set standards, according to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, a Washington-based small-business advocacy group.
Raymond Keating, the group’s chief economist, said the patent system needed to be restructured to bolster patent quality while reducing costs. Other reforms, he said, should include patent litigation, international harmonization and a shift to a first-inventor-to-file approach, as opposed to first-to-invent.
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This is a topic I definitely will come back to and finish reading reading it.
WOW hopefully someone to talk to about this I have been working around the Patent and Trademark Laws since first getting My US postal copyright in 060602 going on close to 7 years or the time that the Patent Office alots for contestment of the Patent Submittal … It is of My belief now after 5.5 years of exhausting all personal www. channels for info of Patenting that this Office is of no USE and the simple act of saying copyright here on www. is much more binding ,
thats interesting