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 [...]

Every once in a while I have to just scratch my head and wonder about those who are supporting Barack Obama for President.  So often it seems that those in the media who are allegedly supporting him make the case against voting for him.  With allies like this there almost isn’t any need for opponents  [...]