Posts Tagged: "bush"

Patent Stories of the Decade – Honorable Mentions

At the end of 2009 I did a two part series setting forth what I believed to be the Top 10 Patent Stories of the Decade, see Top 10 – #1 to #5 and Top 10 – #6 to #10. At the time I promised to do a third in the series, which would discuss the “Honorable Mentions.” After taking…

Gene Quinn

January 14, 2010

USPTO Backlog: Patent Pendency Out of Control

The average pendency of U.S. patent applications is out of control. Everyone involved in the industry knows this to be true, but it might be easy to forget just how bad it is at times. Like so many patent attorneys and agents, I did not practice during the Reagan years. While I have over 10 years of experience as a…

Gene Quinn

April 22, 2009

A Patent Proposal for Green Technology

On July 28, 1987, President Ronald Reagan set forth what became known as the “11-point superconductivity initiative” in a speech to the Federal Conference on Commercial Applications of Superconductivity. As a part of President Reagan’s superconductivity initiative he proposed amendments to the antitrust laws to make it easier for companies to collaborate with respect to basic research, he requested changes to the Freedom…

Gene Quinn

March 30, 2009