USPTO Ramping Up Patent Approvals
A bunch of folks sent over a silly and somewhat uninformed article claiming that the US Patent Office was aiming to block small businesses from filing patents by increasing the costs of patent...
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Patent Office Back To Approving Pretty Much Anything
In the late ’90s and early ’00s, the US Patent Office saw a massive jump in patent grants — including tons of really, really bad patents, that have been tied up in huge, expensive lawsuits for years,...
View ArticleNew Study: USPTO Drastically Lowered Its Standards In Approving Patents To...
The massive problems of the patent system really started getting renewed attention between 2002 and 2004 or so, highlighted by the publication of the book Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken...
View ArticleApple Rejects Tank Battle 1942, Then Approves; Shows How Stupid The iOS...
It’s not much of a secret that Apple sees itself as some kind of supreme overlord of apps for its iProducts. And that supreme overlord has some very puritanical views, it seems: no nudity, no...
View ArticleFISC Rubber Stamp Still Getting A Workout: Not A Single Application Rejected...
This shouldn’t be a huge surprise, but it appears that the old trusty rubber stamp at the FISA Court is still working quite well. In 2013, despite widespread criticism over its previous “perfect...
View ArticleUSMC Entertainment Liaison Not About To Let The Marines' Good Name Be Dragged...
Spy Culture has done it again. It has obtained over 1,600 pages of reports from the Marine Corps’ entertainment liaison office — a satisfying follow-up to the 1,300 pages it snagged from the Army’s...
View ArticleDisrupting The Fourth Amendment: Half Of Law Enforcement E-Warrants Approved...
Law enforcement officers will often testify that seeking warrants is a time-consuming process that subjects officers’ sworn statements to strict judicial scrutiny. The testimony implies the process is...
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