Story: Patent quality 'worst in technology industry'

Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 6 October 2005, 10:39 PM)

re: Patent quality 'worst in technology industry'
Ingrid Marson
ZDNet UK
September 21, 2005, 08:30 BST

Ingrid:
Thank your for your article. Just so you know, the IPO is an organization of large multi-national companies and their large law firms who are backing the present push to change US patent law. According to most all other interested parties the proposed changes will weaken the patent system, not strengthen it.

Considering this, it should be no surprise to find IPO members don’t like patents -except their own. I believe the survey you refer to was only a survey of attendees at one of their recent meetings. Naturally, such a survey would be skewed and have no credibility. In a similar manner, if one took a survey of all defendants in current patent litigation you would find they overwhelmingly believe patent quality to be poor. I believe that is largely what IPO members represent.
regards,
Steve

Steve Wren
inventor
St Louis, MO USA
stevewr@synerty.net