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Innovation Crisis: Job Creation Stalled by Patent Backlog, Says Pat Choate
Stacy Curtin
Yahoo tech Ticker Sep 08, 2010 09:41am
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/innovation-crisis–job-creation-stalled-by-patent-backlog-says-pat-choate-535400.html
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September 8th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
USPTO pipeline is probably clogged with software patents that make more harm than good. Kiwis did the right move recently:
New Zealand bans software patents
http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/50667-new-zealand-bans-software-patents
September 8th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
And yet, every conservatard and libtard politician can’t make a speech without talking about the strategic importance of innovation.
But when comes the time to FIX a problem…where are these assholes?
Sliding a bit more into a 3rd world status.
September 9th, 2010 at 5:11 am
[...] Pat Choate: Our “Innovation Crisis” & Patent Backlog The Big Picture (hat tip reader Francois T) [...]
September 9th, 2010 at 6:22 am
we have no ability to scale up production of innovative products: andy grove of intel made that point a couple months back:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b4186048358596.htm
so if useful patents were fasttracked, the production would go overseas anyhow, so whats the difference?