Congress Deals Patent Office another setback

[Scuba]

http://www.jsonline.com/business/120041914.html


They cripple innovation then call on "American Exceptionalism" to lead us out of the abyss. Damn we elect a bunch of dumb asses every year.



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Congress has dealt a renewed blow to America's inventors and innovators by stripping another $100 million from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an agency incapacitated by two decades of raids on the fees it collects.

"They will be running on fumes," said former patent office director Q. Todd Dickinson, who now heads the American Intellectual Property Law Association, a Washington, D.C., trade group.

The patent office is meant to act as steward of the nation's newest technologies, granting protection to new ideas and products so their developers can commercialize them - and ultimately create jobs. The Harvard Business Review this year described the agency as the "biggest job creator you never heard of."

But beginning in the early 1990s, Congress got into a nearly two-decade habit of draining funds from the agency - which is structured to be self-supporting by charging fees without any taxpayer support - and using the funds to pay for other federal projects.

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[DrDan]

1. and the descent continues

[P. Galore]

2. Just as they have the Library of Congress and copyright. nt

[liberal N proud]

3. Am I the only one here that feels like there is a concerted effort to kill the USA

Everything that these people do does no good for the country. They spend 10 years driving the debt higher and higher then the same assholes call for cutting everything but the military to the bone.

They kill education, they attack ingenuity by stopping alternative energy and transportations systems. What's next?


I just feel like there is a conspiracy to drive America to the bottom where they can control the masses easier.

Am I wrong?