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Patent Office Stifles Innovation
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| Information Age innovators need not apply. At least that's the implied
| message being stretched like police tape across the door of the U.S. Patent &
| Trademark Office (USPTO). The agency seems fixated on eliminating the last,
| true, sustainable American advantage: our capacity to innovate.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc20081110_661183.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_technology
Google still up to bad things:
Google Patents Searching Through Multiple Categories At Once
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| What's unclear to me is how anyone "skilled in the art" could consider this a
| non-obvious solution. This is (and was) the sort of evolutionary improvement
| that pretty much anyone in the space would have known was coming to search
| engines.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081105/0156512741.shtml
Recent:
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates
Say
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| Patent monopolies are believed to drive innovation but they actually impede
| the pace of science and innovation, Stiglitz said. The current “patent
| thicket,” in which anyone who writes a successful software programme is sued
| for alleged patent infringement, highlights the current IP system’s failure
| to encourage innovation, he said.
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| Another problem is that the social returns from innovation do not accord with
| the private returns associated with the patent system, Stiglitz said. The
| marginal benefit from innovation is that an idea may become available sooner
| than it might have. But the person who secures the patent on it wins a
| long-term monopoly, creating a gap between private and social returns.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129
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