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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 dpc
by 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80 percent of patent applications electronically, then manually prints them out, scans them, and enters them into an outdated case management system," Obama said a today's Forum on Modernizing Government.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 agoTo 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 agoApparently, 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...