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I completely agree with you, but there is way too much lobbying power protecting the status quo in the patent arena. Not even a letter to Congress signed by ve
by izqui 10y ago
I completely agree with you, but there is way too much lobbying power protecting the status quo in the patent arena.
Not even a letter to Congress signed by very important SV players did anything... [1]
At Unpatent we believe that big changes can be made using technology when legislation is clearly falling behind.
[1]: http://www.unitedforpatentreform.com http://www.unitedforpatentreform.com
- acomjean 10y agoPart of the problem (among many) is the patent office is funded by fees. So they naturally favor "approving" patents, because applications are their revenue source. Plus it cost businesses to invalidate a patent, but the patent office doesn't bear the cost of bad pattents. https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/an_update_on_sustainable_funding https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/an_update_on_susta...