USPTO



The USPTO grants monopolies on ideas, including algorithms (since Martin Goetz started it). Under the leadership of David Kappos it has done nothing substantial to appease critics and limit patent scope. We also wrote on the subject in the following writings.

2007

 * Reforming USPTO: Patently Absurd – The Video
 * “Open Source“ to USPTO’s Rescue?
 * Patent Madness Watch: When USPTO Becomes Incompatible with Consumers’ Needs
 * USPTO: Eliminating Young Companies While Defending Abuse by Giants
 * The Latest Patent News: USPTO Reform Attacked, Sun Attacks, Vonage Settles
 * Video: PBS on USPTO Reform

2008

 * Does the USPTO Like Its System Broken?
 * Regrets Over USPTO’s Decision to Permit Software Patents
 * It Must Be Official: The USPTO is (Brain) Dead
 * USPTO As Broken as Always, Proof Herein
 * ISO: The New USPTO (and It’s Not a Compliment)
 * Software Patents Roundup: EPO, USPTO and Acacia
 * Patents Roundup: High Court Imposes a USPTO on the UK-IPO, INNOVA~1 Goes Backwards
 * Acacia Buys Google Kryptonite, USPTO Urged to Change
 * Signs That USPTO Should RIP: Company/Individual Patents the Mobile Computer
 * Patent News Roundup: USPTO Madness, Novell’s Role, and Patent Shame
 * USPTO Hall of Shame, Blackboard’s Setback and the Art of Not Sharing
 * Microsoft Sued Over Patents Again, Linus Complains, USPTO Welcomes P2Patent
 * Fixing the Problem at Its Core — USPTO and Lobbying
 * Patents Roundup: Linux, India, Microsoft, the Trolls, and the USPTO
 * Data and Signals Seen as Patentable in the USPTO
 * Microsoft Seeks to Own Page-flipping, Using the Broken USPTO

2009

 * Robbery in the USPTO, More Software Patent Lawsuits, and Rise in ODF’s Popularity
 * Patents Roundup: Red Hat Again; EPO and USPTO Debated
 * David Kappos Can Reprimand IBM for Mocking the USPTO’s Intelligence
 * Microsoft’s Patent Megatroll is Boosting for the USPTO
 * New USPTO Director to Be Appointed, Bad News for Freedom
 * Patents Roundup: Bilski, USPTO and Justice for the Rich Only; ‘Community’ Patent and ‘Harmonisation’ in Europe
 * USPTO’s David Kappos Starts Blog, Should Read Blogs Also
 * Patents Roundup: Red Hat, Former USPTO Commissioner on Patent Demise, and WIPO Notes
 * USPTO Leaves People Dead. Is the Intellectual Monopoly Doctrine Practically Dead Too?
 * USPTO Implicitly Admits It’s Broken

2010

 * USPTO is Imperialistic
 * David Kappos Does Not Understand Why the USPTO is Broken
 * USPTO Receives Overwhelming Opposition to Software Patents
 * Bilski Decision Likely Released This Monday, USPTO Urgently Needs a Reform
 * David Kappos (USPTO Head) Declines to be Part of the ACTA Treaty Fiasco, Won’t Respond
 * Patents Roundup: Cracks in the USPTO, Patent Trolls, and More About Theora
 * Eye on Patents: The USPTO is Failing
 * Novell Continues to Exploit Broken USPTO and Collect Even More Software Patents
 * “The USPTO Has Blown Smoke and Lived in a World of Denial and Obfuscation”
 * USPTO Wants Feedback About Post-Bilski Guidelines, EPO Might Let Monsanto Patent Life
 * Federal Government Less Patents-Friendly Than USPTO, Apple’s Embargo Attempt (With Patents) Fails ITC Judgment
 * Bogus Oracle Patents, Broken USPTO, Apple’s Patent Aggression, and Acacia Gets More Money to Troll
 * FSF and EFF Challenge Software Patents at the USPTO, Nature (Journal) Wants EPO to be Like USPTO, and Patent Trolls Roam Free in Land of the Free
 * USPTO Starts Rejecting Software Patents While Germany Mistakenly Overrides the Law and Approves Microsoft’s
 * Patents Roundup: USPTO Workshop, Bilski Action, and Patents-Imposed Death
 * Patents Roundup: USPTO Changes, New Zealand’s Law Ambiguity, Facebook and Apple Sued
 * Patents Roundup: USPTO Grants Patents on Hotdogs and Harbours Pyramid Schemes, EPO in Transition, and Apple Turns Nasty
 * Obama Finally Slams the USPTO, But Parrots Talking Point from Microsoft and Intellectual Monopolists
 * Patents Roundup: ACTA Inevitability Claimed, USPTO Patently Failing, China Against Patents in Standards, Monsanto in Court

2011

 * USPTO Ridiculed
 * USPTO: Not a Joke, But Sure Looks Like One
 * USPTO’s Violation of the First Amendment, Competition Laws, and Spirit of Creation
 * USPTO Drives American Software Developers Away to Other Countries
 * The USPTO Has Gone Corrupt
 * EPO More Popular/Responsive Than the USPTO
 * Latest Evidence That the USPTO is Morbidly Ill, Costing the Economy; Real Reform Likely
 * Patents Roundup: Patent Lawyers, USPTO ‘Thieves’, Apple, and Microsoft
 * USPTO Has Patents Blocking American Innovation, Brainwashed European Minority Wants to Emulate This Mess
 * Cablegate: USPTO, JPO, and EPO Prepare a Global Patent System
 * Patents Roundup: Twitter and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, USPTO and SCOTUS
 * The Patent System — USPTO in Particular — Comes Under More Fire


 * Head of the USPTO is Confused, Defends Software Patents and Patent Trolls
 * USPTO is Driving Away Businesses to Countries Like New Zealand, US-based Multinationals Attack New Zealand With Imperialistic Patent Lobbying to Assimilate Policies
 * The EPO Goes Down the Same Abyss as the USPTO
 * Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’
 * With Failure to Reform USPTO, Grim Future for Patent Systems Worldwide
 * Latest Examples of the Failure of the USPTO, With Emphasis on Software Patents
 * New Cracks in the US Patent System
 * Cost of Patent Trolls Studied as Acceptance of USPTO Falls, Developers Complain Even in Press Releases

2012

 * USPTO Imperialists Want Their Ponzi Scheme imposed by IPONZ
 * The US Patent System Shows More Weaknesses
 * With IBM Executive Running the USPTO, IBM Tops Patent Monopolists List
 * New Evidence Arrives to Support Patent System Overhaul While EFF Pressures Congress
 * In the Age of Defective Patent Systems, Google Receives Patents to Defend Android From Lawsuits
 * Perspectives on the USPTO and Software Patents
 * Life Still Patentable in the US
 * Kappos/IBM Part of the Patent Monopolies Disease, Enabling Cartels
 * USPTO and SCOTUS Abducted by Corporations
 * Patents Roundup: Microsoft Front the BSA Promotes Software Patents, Kappos Helps the Rotten System
 * David Kappos Quits, USPTO is Headless
 * SCOTUS Can Show Support for Public Interests by Stopping USPTO’s Systemic Corruption
 * USPTO Sued as the System Collapses Under the Weight of Trolls, Monopolists, and Lawyers/Politicians
 * USPTO Continues to Fail Where India is Succeeding
 * USPTO is Broken, Evidence is Abundant

2013

 * Quantity Over Quality, or Why the US Permits Software Patenting
 * USPTO Denies the Option of Eliminating Software Patents and Other Controversial Patents
 * USPTO Antagonises Change, Apple Continues to Lean on Patents and Trademarks
 * FRAND Quite Likely the First Casualty at USPTO, Not Patents (Directly)
 * Patent System Errors of Scope
 * USPTO ‘Debate’ Already Rigged by Patent Lawyers
 * USPTO Drives Business Out of the US
 * USPTO in Doubt
 * Apple Keeps Losing Patent Cases, Now Pursues Trademarks on Designs!
 * USPTO Approves Another ‘Slide to Unlock’ Sham
 * USPTO Shows That It Wants to Go Global
 * USPTO Patents Are Comedy, EFF Strives to Change That
 * Federal Reserve Economists Want to Abolish USPTO, Unrest Reaches Unprecedented Levels Due to Patent Trolls
 * USPTO’s Software Patents ‘Roundtable’ is Rigged
 * USPTO a Driver of Patent Trolls, Drives Innovation and Sharing Out of the US
 * USPTO Selling Lives
 * No Genuine Debates About Real Patent Reform, Just Covert Patent Expansion
 * USPTO Drives Linux Phones Out of the United States, US Citizens Speak Out Against Software Patents, Politicians Concerned
 * Groklaw’s Good Suggestions for the USPTO, China Follows USPTO’s Mistake
 * USPTO and Lundberg Deceive the Public on Patents
 * USPTO Worse Than Before With First-to-File System, Microsoft’s Patent List Meaningless
 * Apple’s Case Against Android May Collapse as USPTO Reaffirms Incompetence
 * USPTO is Out of Control and Needs to be Rebooted (or Booted Out)
 * Microsoft and BSA Among Participants in USPTO-Organised Biased ‘Debate’ About Software Patents
 * The SCOTUS-endorsed USPTO’s Bet Against Public Life and the Bribery for Patent Policy
 * The Steep Decline of the Patent System: Scope Expanded While Barriers Lowered, USPTO Promotes Yet More Patenting
 * When GNU/Linux Backers Can’t Tell the USPTO That It’s Broken, Software Patents Illegitimate
 * White House Should Identify USPTO as the Problem, Not Patent Trolls
 * USPTO to be Partly Headed by Google Executive

2014

 * USPTO Still a Sham; Microsoft, Apple and IBM Still Part of the Problem and Google/Linux a Common Victim
 * David Kappos Fatally Killed Quality at the USPTO and Killed Fairness in Industries as a Result
 * ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ in Reverse: USPTO Gets Even More Extremist With New White House Appointment
 * White House Backs Away From Appointing Patents Zealot to Top USPTO Position
 * USPTO Officially Sets New Guidelines to Limit Scope of Software Patents in the United States
 * Investigation Reveals That USPTO is Corrupt, Time to Abolish It or Annul Nearly a Million Patents
 * The USPTO is Broken: New Evidence Presented

2015

 * Growing Resistance to Software Patents in the US While USPTO Expected to Review Subject Matter Eligibility
 * Alice Case Beats Microsoft Patent Troll, USPTO Director Michelle Lee Wants Reform
 * Wanted: USPTO Whistleblowers
 * USPTO Watch: Patent Bubbles, Patents on Life, and No Prior Art Search
 * Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks
 * Witnessing the Patent Mess That the USPTO Created

2016

 * Technology Companies at CES Lash Out at the USPTO for Enabling 'Extortion Rackets'
 * Why the Corporations-Leaning US Political System Does Not and Will Not Help Resolve the Patent Chaos
 * USPTO Doubled the Number of Granted Patents in Just a Few Years, Demonstrating Very Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
 * The Greedy USPTO Leaves Loopholes, “Per Se”, for Patenting of Software in the United States Despite the Alice Case
 * Software Patents in the US -- When Properly Challenged in an Age of Extreme USPTO Leniency -- Simply Die
 * USPTO Still a Fine Mess, ITC Restricted as Sanctions/Embargo Enforcer
 * The United States Still Has Software Patents Because of USPTO Greed, Incapacity for Criticism/Change
 * Criticisms of the Patent System of the United States, Which is Imposed on the Rest of the World Using Corporate Lobbyists and Attracts or Creates Patent Trolls
 * USPTO Ignores a Lot of Cases Against Software Patents to Justify Resumption of More Software Patenting
 * The Circus of Patent 'Reporting' (by Omission) on the Subject of Software Patents in the US and USPTO Bias
 * IBM, Google and Microsoft Patent Stockpiles Demonstrate That Today’s US Patent System Exists for Billionaires, Not for Inventors
 * Fourth-Busiest Quarter for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Which Invalidates Software Patents That USPTO Foolishly or Selfishly Granted
 * The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over
 * Large Corporations' Lobbyist David Kappos Disgraces Former Employer USPTO by Meddling in Their Affairs on Software Patents, Downplaying the Supreme Court
 * Internal USPTO Documents Reveal a Battle and Protest Over Software Patenting
 * USPTO Fraud Accusations and the 'Coverup' Attempt by USPTO Circles Inside the Corporate Media
 * USPTO Director Michelle K. Lee Reportedly on Her Way Out, US Patent Reform Put on Hold
 * Director Lee's USPTO Managed to Drain the Swamp Filled by David Kappos and His Colleagues, But Trump Will Likely Dismiss Her Soon
 * USPTO Echo Chamber That Lacks Actual Software Professionals Deciding on Patentability of Software
 * The USPTO Helps Large Businesses Crush Small Businesses

2017

 * Doomsday Scenario in the Back Mirror as Michelle Lee Keeps Her Job (and Much-Needed Patent Reform) at the USPTO
 * Michelle Lee, USPTO Director, Should Recognise That the Patent Microcosm is Her Enemy Which Hates Her
 * Matt Levy (Computer and Communications Industry Association) Welcomes Michelle Lee as USPTO Director
 * Yes, Michelle Lee is Still in Charge of the US Patent Office, in Spite of the Patent Microcosm's Endless Attacks on Her
 * USPTO Shoots Itself in the Foot by Granting a Patent on Paper Bag
 * The US Patent Office (USPTO) Should Now be Headed by Drew Hirshfeld, a Patent Examiner Who Rose to the Top, Not a Lawyer Like Joseph Matal
 * The USPTO Report on Section 101 is Somewhat Farcical as Input Comes From the Patent Microcosm, Not Producing Companies
 * The Section 101 USPTO 'Debate' (for a 'Report') is a Bunch of Lawyers Debating Among Themselves, No Engineers/Scientists Involved
 * To Save Face, USPTO Ought to Stop Granting Software Patents Altogether
 * Donald Trump Wants a Patent Maximalist in Charge of the USPTO
 * Trump's USPTO Nominee is a Supporter of Software Patents
 * Unless Physical, Inventions Are No Longer Patent-Eligible in US Courts, But USPTO Ignores Precedence
 * USPTO Starts Discriminating Against Poor People, and Does So Even When They Rightly Point Out Errors
 * Wilbur Ross, Connected to Putin's Direct Family, Puts Iancu (Patent Microcosm) in Charge of the USPTO
 * The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is Calling for Greater Transparency at USPTO and US Patent Courts
 * Next Director of the USPTO Parrots Talking Points of Patent Extremists and Their Lobbyists
 * Andrei Iancu in Charge of the United States Patent Office (USPTO) Would be a Patent Microcosm Coup

2018

 * Top Rank at USPTO Goes to the Biggest Patent Bully, IBM
 * USPTO May Get a New Director Tomorrow, But It's Not Good News
 * Andrei Iancu's Firm Has a History Working With Trump, But Senate Says OK to Him Becoming USPTO Director
 * The Campaign to Subvert the US Patent Office by Misrepresenting Its Successes
 * Andrei Iancu Begins His USPTO Career While Former USPTO Director (and Now Paid Lobbyist) Keeps Meddling in Office Affairs
 * Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month
 * USPTO Will Have a Crisis of Legitimacy If Its Officials Work as Lobbyists and Cooperate With Villainous Think Tanks
 * The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law