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He's talking about the receiving, printing, scanning, and management of patents being embarrassing. He wants to speed up the process by which big business can

by dpcan 17y ago

He's talking about the receiving, printing, scanning, and management of patents being embarrassing. He wants to speed up the process by which big business can cripple innovation.

jbooth 17y ago
He said that? I didn't see it. Must have been printed between the lines.
- pohl 17y ago
  It's there, on the lines, not in between them. The flaws that he's pointing out are, in fact, inefficiencies for which I am thankful, for the exact reasons dpcan mentioned. "Believe it or not, in our patent office -- now, this is embarrassing -- this is an institution responsible for protecting and promoting innovation -- our patent office receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically, then manually prints them out, scans them, and enters them into an outdated case management system," Obama said a today's Forum on Modernizing Government.
  - amalcon 17y ago
    To be entirely fair, it's theoretically possible that (if they didn't have to do these things) they could examine the average patent more carefully on the same budget. It's unlikely, though. What would actually happen is an entirely different matter.
  - decode 17y ago
    Apparently, the PTO doesn't actually do this anymore. President Obama was misinformed in his statement. http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2010/01/14/president-obama-calls-uspto-filing-system-embarrassing/ http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2010/01/14/president-obama-calls-u...
- dpcan 17y ago
  No. Not really between the lines. If the process gets faster, it will directly affect the speed that which big business can get their patents approved. So, if he wants the patent process to go faster, then he wants big business to be able to get their patents faster (as is true with any patent filer actually) and therefore, a==b==c
  - jbooth 17y ago
    That's ridiculous. Having a natural aversion to the kind of idiocy described in the article does not mean that you're specifically for the dumbest patents that are granted by the system. Personally, I'm against inefficiency and against stupid patents. One is an administrative issue, the other is a policy issue. You with me? Do I need to break it down further?
fuzzmeister 17y ago
The fact that any modern government agency processes information in such a backwards way is embarrassing, no matter what that agency is doing. If you want patent reform, campaign for it directly, rather than relying on how slow and tedious the process is.
- pyre 17y ago
  The point is that Obama isn't embarrassed about the patent system because it is broken. He's embarrassed because the patent office's infrastructure is behind the times. There's a distinction.

by dpcan 17y ago

He's talking about the receiving, printing, scanning, and management of patents being embarrassing. He wants to speed up the process by which big business can cripple innovation.

jbooth 17y ago

He said that? I didn't see it. Must have been printed between the lines.

pohl 17y ago
It's there, on the lines, not in between them. The flaws that he's pointing out are, in fact, inefficiencies for which I am thankful, for the exact reasons dpcan mentioned. "Believe it or not, in our patent office -- now, this is embarrassing -- this is an institution responsible for protecting and promoting innovation -- our patent office receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically, then manually prints them out, scans them, and enters them into an outdated case management system," Obama said a today's Forum on Modernizing Government.
- amalcon 17y ago
  To be entirely fair, it's theoretically possible that (if they didn't have to do these things) they could examine the average patent more carefully on the same budget. It's unlikely, though. What would actually happen is an entirely different matter.
- decode 17y ago
  Apparently, the PTO doesn't actually do this anymore. President Obama was misinformed in his statement. http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2010/01/14/president-obama-calls-uspto-filing-system-embarrassing/ http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2010/01/14/president-obama-calls-u...
dpcan 17y ago
No. Not really between the lines. If the process gets faster, it will directly affect the speed that which big business can get their patents approved. So, if he wants the patent process to go faster, then he wants big business to be able to get their patents faster (as is true with any patent filer actually) and therefore, a==b==c
- jbooth 17y ago
  That's ridiculous. Having a natural aversion to the kind of idiocy described in the article does not mean that you're specifically for the dumbest patents that are granted by the system. Personally, I'm against inefficiency and against stupid patents. One is an administrative issue, the other is a policy issue. You with me? Do I need to break it down further?

fuzzmeister 17y ago

The fact that any modern government agency processes information in such a backwards way is embarrassing, no matter what that agency is doing. If you want patent reform, campaign for it directly, rather than relying on how slow and tedious the process is.

pyre 17y ago
The point is that Obama isn't embarrassed about the patent system because it is broken. He's embarrassed because the patent office's infrastructure is behind the times. There's a distinction.