The below the fold article September 17 in the Wall Street Journal about Nathan Myhrvold, of Intellectual Ventures, should have displaced the above the fold headlines regarding the vague financial turmoil currently afflicting the U.S. and World Economy. Whereas one will pass, like kidney stones, with much watery eyed pain and gnashing of teeth, [...]

Let’s be perfectly honest, the US patent system has stopped rewarding innovation and has started rewarding those who have the finances and ability to game the system. That is a huge problem and one that needs to be addressed far more quickly than any other problem facing us. I have been saying for years that [...]

I stumbled across an interested report titled Comparing the Candidates’ Technology & Innovation Policies written by The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a non-partisan research and educational institute whose mission is to formulate and promote public policies to advance technological innovation and productivity internationally, in Washington, and in the states.  The report goes through issue [...]

PRESS RELEASE: On Monday, September 15, 2008, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) will begin enforcing new rules regarding who may represent others at before both the Patent Office and the Trademark Office. These rules strike a fatal blow to the invention submission industry, an industry that has preyed upon unwitting independent inventors [...]

The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) has called for a strike of all European Patent Office staff, many of whom will be traveling to Brussels to take part in a demonstration against the undermining of the European patent organization by its governing body and management.  Perhaps this should be filed under [...]