USPTO director defends software patents
Thursday, November 22, 2012
USPTO director defends software patents
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office David Kappos, quoted by Timothy B. Lee at Ars Technica:
In a system like ours in which innovation is happening faster than people can keep up, it cannot be said that the patent system is broken.
Of course, heβs wrong, but what else would he argue?
"The work my directorate does is under-funded and based upon a flawed patchwork of case and statutory law that frustrates our Constitutional mandate!"
Unlikely.
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