Patent Law

Wireless

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Reed Hundt, former elementary school principal, was FCC chairman in the Clinton administration. In 2006, he wrote a genuinely stupid opinion piece in Forbes disparaging the U.S. patent system, suggesting arbitrarily slashing patent grants by 90%, and other lunacy. Empirical proof, for the upteenth time, that a Yale graduate can be as smart as a chewed wad of gum stuck under a student's desk. Hundt is now helping President-elect Obama as a transition team leader. No indication that Hundt will have anything to do with patents. So maybe let's give the guy a break.

Hat tip to Peter Zura for starting this tempest in a tea pot.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).