Patent Law

Scan This

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

"Believe it or not, in our patent office -- now, this is embarrassing -- this is an institution responsible for protecting and promoting innovation -- our patent office receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically, then manually prints them out, scans them, and enters them into an outdated case management system. This is one of the reasons why the average processing time for a patent is roughly three years." - President Obama

Hat tip of thanks to Professor Dennis Crouch.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).