Can The U.S. Patent Office Be Fixed?

The New York Times:

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, who emphasizes American innovation, says modernizing the federal Patent and Trademark Office is crucial to "winning the future." So at a time when a quarter of patent applications come from California, and many of those from Silicon Valley, the patent office is opening its first satellite office -- in Detroit.

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[Moder8tion]

01:02 PM on 02/22/2011

-Manufacturing out
-Govt pork in

I wonder if we can put a prison or another social security office in also?

[Copyright Attorney]

01:13 AM on 02/22/2011

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CounterPath Corporation, an award-winning provider of desktop and mobile voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software solutions, today announced that patent number 7,656,864 has been granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. CounterPath now has exclusive rights to a fundamental patent covering its fixed mobile convergence technology. The new patent extends CounterPath’s portfolio of patents and exclusive licenses covering its fixed-mobile convergence solutions arising from its acquisition of BridgePort Networks.

[olddognewtrick]

03:52 PM on 02/21/2011

and just in time too...