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November 08, 2011

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I remain skeptical whenever I see "statistics: juxtaposed together like:

• Backlog down to 669,625 applications
• 1,217,842 applications in progress

Deck chairs on the Titanic (at full list)were more difficult to move then moving an item from the "backlog" category to the "in progress" category.

Wouldn't a simple measure like "average aged receiveable" be more meaningful?

Dear Skeptical:

Well, if 535,000 new applications were filed in FY 2011 (provided these are really "new") and there are ~669,000 pending applications filed before FY 2011) then the math makes sense. But I agree that some of this is bookkeeping.

Thanks for the comment.

'The Office is accepting "informal" comments'

That's not true. Rather they are acting to limit and filter comments of inventors.

"patent reform"

“This is not a patent reform bill” Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) complained, despite other democrats praising the overhaul. “This is a big corporation patent giveaway that tramples on the right of small inventors.”

Senator Cantwell is right. Just because they call it “reform” doesn’t mean it is. The agents of banks, huge multinationals, and China are at it again trying to brain wash and bankrupt America.

They should have called the bill the America STOPS Inventing Act or ASIA, because that’s where it is sending all our jobs.

The patent bill is nothing less than another monumental federal giveaway for banks, huge multinationals, and China and an off shoring job killing nightmare for America. Even the leading patent expert in China has stated the bill will help them steal our inventions. Who are the supporters of this bill working for??

Patent reform is a fraud on America. This bill will not do what they claim it will. What it will do is help large multinational corporations maintain their monopolies by robbing and killing their small entity and startup competitors (so it will do exactly what the large multinationals paid for) and with them the jobs they would have created. The bill will make it harder and more expensive for small firms to get and enforce their patents. Without patents we cant get funded. Yet small entities create the lion's share of new jobs. According to recent studies by the Kauffman Foundation and economists at the U.S. Census Bureau, “startups aren’t everything when it comes to job growth. They’re the only thing.” This bill is a wholesale slaughter of US jobs. Those wishing to help fight this bill should contact us as below.

Small entities and inventors have been given far too little voice on this bill when one considers that they rely far more heavily on the patent system than do large firms who can control their markets by their size alone. The smaller the firm, the more they rely on patents -especially startups and individual inventors. Congress tinkering with patent law while gagging inventors is like a surgeon operating before examining the patient.

Please see http://truereform.piausa.org/default.html for a different/opposing view on patent reform.
http://docs.piausa.org/

It's good to know that the Track One program is back in action. Though I wish the patent reform legislation had ended fee diversion, at least the bill is allowing the USPTO a fee hike, which will permit the patent office to implement initiatives (like the Track One program and the Detroit satellite office) that had been back-burnered.
http://www.generalpatent.com/blog/

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