Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Congress Moves to Rewrite Patent Laws
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Now Congress is trying to cut down on poor-quality or downright ridiculous
>| patents, and at the same time adapt the patent system to a high-tech era in
>| which computers and other electronic devices may contain thousands of
>| patentable parts.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| There's a backlog of 750,000 patent applications at the U.S. Patent and
>| Trademark Office, which is recovering from years of underfunding and hopes to
>| nearly double the number of patent examiners on staff, currently about 5,300.
> `----
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070728/congress_patents.html?.v=1
>
How about training them? If they were properly trained in the first
place, the mess in which NAFTA presently finds itself would never have
happened.
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