Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation

Please note that this post is from 2008. Evaluate with care and in light of later events.

The Founders might have used quill pens, but they would roll their eyes at how, in this supposedly technology-minded era, we’re undermining their intention to encourage innovation. The U.S. is stumbling in the transition from their Industrial Age to our Information Age, despite the charge in the Constitution that Congress “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”

Interesting article from the WSJ:

• Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation