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[ NNSquad ] Software patent booster to step down as head of patent office
Software patent booster to step down as head of patent office
http://t.co/7HS5w3pK (ars technica)
The director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),
David Kappos, announced Monday that he will step down from his post in
January. President Barack Obama has not named a successor ... Last
week, perhaps anticipating that his imminent departure would make it
easier for him to speak his mind, Kappos made it clear that he was
first and foremost a defender of the status quo. In an address at the
Center for American Progress, Kappos called the American patent system
"the envy of the world," and told the system's critics to "give it a
rest already." "The explosion of litigation we are seeing is a
reflection of how the patent system wires us for innovation," Kappos
argued last week. "It's natural and reasonable that innovators would
seek to protect their breakthroughs using the patent system."
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I am, frankly, not at all unhappy to see him leave the USPTO.
--Lauren--
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