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Once Again, The New Yorker Gets It Wrong on Patents

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- James Surowiecki is exercising his antipatent animus once again in the August 11th edition of The New Yorker. Mr. Surowiecki (at right) writes a weekly column called "The Financial Page" in the magazine, and he has shown that he doesn't like patents several times in his work. These instances include complaining about business method patents in the July 14, 2003 issue of the magazine (see "Patent Bending"), the Blackberry litigation in the December 26, 2005 issue (see "Blackberry Picking"), and the intellectual property provisions of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on August 08, 2008 (boomark / email).