Patent Law

The Problem

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

The backlog in the USPTO is one enormous statement of managerial incompetence. Nothing more. Singularly, what the Office has sorely lacked, and still lacks, is competent leadership. Jon Dudas was the Dubya of patents. For both, this nation is paying an incredible price, and will for years to come. Unless and until effective management is on board, with its eye on the ball of examination quality, and all that entails, all the other recommendations are stillborn to spurring solutions.

Inspired by Tessera CEO Hank Nothhaft in the Silicon Valley MercuryNews, who had some thought-provoking things to say, though, oddly for a CEO, quality management wasn't one of them.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).