Tech Policy Summit: Patent Office head lays out reform strategy

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I think the problem of the USPTO is bigger than we all
imagined. There was I thinking we needed to have a discussion
about what fundamentally constitutes a patent, and instead we
told that there is an "error rate" of only 3.5%. This is really
just trivialising the issue.

No one really believes that the (non-US) world is full of
admiration for the US system of intellectual property
management, Let's ask the Chinese?

So, the problem can easily be solved in the good old US
fashion...throw some money at it. Hire some college graduates
and clear the backlog. And watch the $1.5 billion settlements
follow.

Posted by: tassie_devil   Posted on: 02/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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