Patent Law

They Call This Reportage?

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Mareen Farrell gives a garbled account of the patent scene in Forbes: "They Call This Intellectual Property?" Farrell surmises the source of pendency: "Blame part of the pile-up on pesky filers of overly obvious patents." With no sense of perspective, Farrell mentions KSR, but then rails about silly patents issued before the PTO made patent grants as scarce as hen's teeth. News for prosecutors: "To get a patent approved, inventors must establish, among other things, that their invention or idea is not clearly manifest." Crystal ball in hand, Farrell on patent reform: "The Senate is expected to vote... in the coming months." No year for the "coming months" was given.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).