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Revision as of 21:10, 5 February 2013
The USPTO grants monopolies on ideas, including algorithms. Under the leadership of David Kappos it has done nothing substantial to appease critics. We also wrote on the subject in the following writings.
Contents |
2007
- Reforming USPTO: Patently Absurd – The Video
- “Open Source“ to USPTO’s Rescue?
- Patent Madness Watch: When USPTO Becomes Incompatible with Consumers’ Needs
- USPTO: Eliminating Young Companies While Defending Abuse by Giants
- The Latest Patent News: USPTO Reform Attacked, Sun Attacks, Vonage Settles
- Video: PBS on USPTO Reform
2008
- Does the USPTO Like Its System Broken?
- Regrets Over USPTO’s Decision to Permit Software Patents
- It Must Be Official: The USPTO is (Brain) Dead
- USPTO As Broken as Always, Proof Herein
- ISO: The New USPTO (and It’s Not a Compliment)
- Software Patents Roundup: EPO, USPTO and Acacia
- Patents Roundup: High Court Imposes a USPTO on the UK-IPO, INNOVA~1 Goes Backwards
- Acacia Buys Google Kryptonite, USPTO Urged to Change
- Signs That USPTO Should RIP: Company/Individual Patents the Mobile Computer
- Patent News Roundup: USPTO Madness, Novell’s Role, and Patent Shame
- USPTO Hall of Shame, Blackboard’s Setback and the Art of Not Sharing
- Microsoft Sued Over Patents Again, Linus Complains, USPTO Welcomes P2Patent
- Fixing the Problem at Its Core — USPTO and Lobbying
- Patents Roundup: Linux, India, Microsoft, the Trolls, and the USPTO
- Data and Signals Seen as Patentable in the USPTO
- Microsoft Seeks to Own Page-flipping, Using the Broken USPTO
2009
- Robbery in the USPTO, More Software Patent Lawsuits, and Rise in ODF’s Popularity
- Patents Roundup: Red Hat Again; EPO and USPTO Debated
- David Kappos Can Reprimand IBM for Mocking the USPTO’s Intelligence
- Microsoft’s Patent Megatroll is Boosting for the USPTO
- New USPTO Director to Be Appointed, Bad News for Freedom
- Patents Roundup: Bilski, USPTO and Justice for the Rich Only; ‘Community’ Patent and ‘Harmonisation’ in Europe
- USPTO’s David Kappos Starts Blog, Should Read Blogs Also
- Patents Roundup: Red Hat, Former USPTO Commissioner on Patent Demise, and WIPO Notes
- USPTO Leaves People Dead. Is the Intellectual Monopoly Doctrine Practically Dead Too?
- USPTO Implicitly Admits It’s Broken
2010
- USPTO is Imperialistic
- David Kappos Does Not Understand Why the USPTO is Broken
- USPTO Receives Overwhelming Opposition to Software Patents
- Bilski Decision Likely Released This Monday, USPTO Urgently Needs a Reform
- David Kappos (USPTO Head) Declines to be Part of the ACTA Treaty Fiasco, Won’t Respond
- Patents Roundup: Cracks in the USPTO, Patent Trolls, and More About Theora
- Eye on Patents: The USPTO is Failing
- Novell Continues to Exploit Broken USPTO and Collect Even More Software Patents
- “The USPTO Has Blown Smoke and Lived in a World of Denial and Obfuscation”
- USPTO Wants Feedback About Post-Bilski Guidelines, EPO Might Let Monsanto Patent Life
- Federal Government Less Patents-Friendly Than USPTO, Apple’s Embargo Attempt (With Patents) Fails ITC Judgment
- Bogus Oracle Patents, Broken USPTO, Apple’s Patent Aggression, and Acacia Gets More Money to Troll
- FSF and EFF Challenge Software Patents at the USPTO, Nature (Journal) Wants EPO to be Like USPTO, and Patent Trolls Roam Free in Land of the Free
- USPTO Starts Rejecting Software Patents While Germany Mistakenly Overrides the Law and Approves Microsoft’s
- Patents Roundup: USPTO Workshop, Bilski Action, and Patents-Imposed Death
- Patents Roundup: USPTO Changes, New Zealand’s Law Ambiguity, Facebook and Apple Sued
- Patents Roundup: USPTO Grants Patents on Hotdogs and Harbours Pyramid Schemes, EPO in Transition, and Apple Turns Nasty
- Obama Finally Slams the USPTO, But Parrots Talking Point from Microsoft and Intellectual Monopolists
- Patents Roundup: ACTA Inevitability Claimed, USPTO Patently Failing, China Against Patents in Standards, Monsanto in Court
2011
- USPTO Ridiculed
- USPTO: Not a Joke, But Sure Looks Like One
- USPTO’s Violation of the First Amendment, Competition Laws, and Spirit of Creation
- USPTO Drives American Software Developers Away to Other Countries
- The USPTO Has Gone Corrupt
- EPO More Popular/Responsive Than the USPTO
- Latest Evidence That the USPTO is Morbidly Ill, Costing the Economy; Real Reform Likely
- Patents Roundup: Patent Lawyers, USPTO ‘Thieves’, Apple, and Microsoft
- USPTO Has Patents Blocking American Innovation, Brainwashed European Minority Wants to Emulate This Mess
- Cablegate: USPTO, JPO, and EPO Prepare a Global Patent System
- Patents Roundup: Twitter and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, USPTO and SCOTUS
- The Patent System — USPTO in Particular — Comes Under More Fire
- Head of the USPTO is Confused, Defends Software Patents and Patent Trolls
- USPTO is Driving Away Businesses to Countries Like New Zealand, US-based Multinationals Attack New Zealand With Imperialistic Patent Lobbying to Assimilate Policies
- The EPO Goes Down the Same Abyss as the USPTO
- Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’
- With Failure to Reform USPTO, Grim Future for Patent Systems Worldwide
- Latest Examples of the Failure of the USPTO, With Emphasis on Software Patents
- New Cracks in the US Patent System
- Cost of Patent Trolls Studied as Acceptance of USPTO Falls, Developers Complain Even in Press Releases
2012
- USPTO Imperialists Want Their Ponzi Scheme imposed by IPONZ
- The US Patent System Shows More Weaknesses
- With IBM Executive Running the USPTO, IBM Tops Patent Monopolists List
- New Evidence Arrives to Support Patent System Overhaul While EFF Pressures Congress
- In the Age of Defective Patent Systems, Google Receives Patents to Defend Android From Lawsuits
- Perspectives on the USPTO and Software Patents
- Life Still Patentable in the US
- Kappos/IBM Part of the Patent Monopolies Disease, Enabling Cartels
- USPTO and SCOTUS Abducted by Corporations
- Patents Roundup: Microsoft Front the BSA Promotes Software Patents, Kappos Helps the Rotten System
- David Kappos Quits, USPTO is Headless
- SCOTUS Can Show Support for Public Interests by Stopping USPTO’s Systemic Corruption
- USPTO Sued as the System Collapses Under the Weight of Trolls, Monopolists, and Lawyers/Politicians
- USPTO Continues to Fail Where India is Succeeding
- USPTO is Broken, Evidence is Abundant
2013
- Quantity Over Quality, or Why the US Permits Software Patenting
- USPTO Denies the Option of Eliminating Software Patents and Other Controversial Patents
- USPTO Antagonises Change, Apple Continues to Lean on Patents and Trademarks
- FRAND Quite Likely the First Casualty at USPTO, Not Patents (Directly)
- Patent System Errors of Scope
- USPTO ‘Debate’ Already Rigged by Patent Lawyers
- USPTO Drives Business Out of the US
- USPTO in Doubt
- Apple Keeps Losing Patent Cases, Now Pursues Trademarks on Designs!
- USPTO Approves Another ‘Slide to Unlock’ Sham
- USPTO Shows That It Wants to Go Global
