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backPatents (the one horse shay) are coming apart The GAO reports some impressive numbers on the USPTO link here and here and here. The latter plans to hire 1200 examiners a year for the next five years, but the backlog will increase to more than 1.3 million applications. If it could hire 2000 a year (presumably, it can't), the backlog would only increase by 260,000 to 953,643. So they are going to get the Patent Reform Act to slow the growth of the backlog.
Just thinking out loud, how can that be done? Any changes in patent law will almost certainly have to cover patents already granted. So depending on how they change the law, they may actually increase the backlog and/or the amount of litigation. Talk about a broken system. [Posted at 02/28/2008 07:20 PM by John Bennett on Patents (General) CommentsSubmit Comment |
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 Most Recent Comments IP is not a joke Bill:
Absolutely. Parody and satire are protected under fair use. Mad Magazine (among many at 02/09/2010 05:41 AM by Anonymous
IP is not a joke Couldn't it be used under the fair use at 02/08/2010 03:22 PM by Bill Stepp
Goldman does in AIG, you, and me Predatory Lending is a major contributor to the economic turmoil we are currently at 02/08/2010 03:07 PM by jmb27
Common Sense Seth - I'm not sure how your comment @ 5:57pm casts any illumination on your earlier position. If I at 02/08/2010 02:03 PM by Justin Levine
Lessig: Congress is broken and Obama has failed Anon, state granted monopolies are effectively licenses for corporations to collect taxes on at 02/08/2010 01:50 PM by Crosbie Fitch
Lessig: Congress is broken and Obama has failed It does seem strange to me that when we are faced with the possibility of a 23 trillion dollar at 02/08/2010 01:18 PM by Anonymous
The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files Fred, I recognise that 'natural monopoly' may have a more specialised meaning for economists, and at 02/08/2010 07:19 AM by Crosbie Fitch
Lessig: Congress is broken and Obama has failed Fred, I'm doing something immediately. I'm working on the Contingency Market. this is something at 02/08/2010 06:53 AM by Crosbie Fitch
The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files @Crosbie: I agree *natural monopolies* do exist, despite any tendency for SK and Bill Stepp to shut at 02/07/2010 10:21 PM by Fred McTaker
Lessig: Congress is broken and Obama has failed I thank John Bennett for this post, and for the quality of his posts here in general. I've been at 02/07/2010 09:02 PM by Fred McTaker
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