Comments on: Retailers Urge Supreme Court Smackdown Of Process Patents

By: cost of eye lasik

cost of eye lasik — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:29:07 +0000

Love the Kappos quote. How about this one by President Obama? “Believe it or not, in our patent office — now, this is embarrassing — this is an institution responsible for protecting and promoting innovation — our patent office receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically, then manually prints them out, scans them, and enters them into an outdated case management system. This is one of the reasons why the average processing time for a patent is roughly three years. Imminently solvable; hasn’t been solved yet.”

— President Barack Obama, Forum on Modernizing Government, White House, January 14, 2010
http://www.inventionstatistics.com/Patent_Backlog_Patent_Office_Backlog.html

By: T1

T1 — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:28:15 +0000

Here is an amazing quote by USPTO Director David Kappos on just how serious the backlog is in terms of its impact on downstream economic growth and prosperity:

“Nearly nine months into his tenure as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, David Kappos said Monday [May 3, 2010] that he thinks the agency still is stifling millions of potential jobs [following the financial meltdown triggered in 2008] because of its inability to keep pace with the volume and complexity of the applications it receives.

While he lacks empirical data on the number of jobs that ‘our country’s innovation agency’ impedes because of its inability to keep up, Kappos said his instincts tell him the number runs into the millions.

‘Hundreds of thousands of groundbreaking innovations that are sitting on the shelf literally waiting to be examined – jobs not being created, lifesaving drugs not going to the marketplace, companies not being funded, businesses not being formed – there’s really not any good news in any of this,’ Kappos said during a panel discussion at the annual trade show of the Biotechnology Industry Organization.

What’s more, innovation has become the main driver of economic growth, Kappos said. The agency’s backlog impedes economic advancement at a time when China and the rest of Asia are spending unprecedented sums on research and development, challenging the United States in areas of technology innovation where it once reigned supreme, he said.”

(John Schmid of the Journal Sentinel, “Backlog of patents still stifling potential jobs, director says,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 3, 2010)

David Kammen

By: Colin Busher

Colin Busher — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:14:56 +0000

If inventors or businesses have strong opinions on a legislative solution they should express them to the Judiciary Committees that oversee the Patent Office which they can do at http://www.inventorinsights.com/Congress_Patent_Office_Oversight_Committee.html. I would like to know where you can get a list of patent insurance companies in the U.S.
Thanks in advance
Colin

By: staff

staff — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:49:00 +0000

Patents may only be issued on novel inventions, meaning if it existed before you discovered/created it, it cannot be patented. If a patent should be issued in spite of a lack of novelty, it will be invalidated in court if an accused infringer can provide proof that the invention was not novel.