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'Give it a rest,' USPTO chief tells patent critics

USPTO director David Kappos says software is every bit as entitled to patent protection as hardware innovations. Critics of the agency should give recent reforms a chance to work, he told a think tank audience Tuesday.

Tags: USPTO , software patents , David Kappos , Center for American Progress , Jared Serbu

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Owens, PTO heeding call from Obama for reform

John Owens, the CIO at the Patent and Trademark Office, says his biggest priority is to fix the patent process.
March 10, 2011

Tags: John Owens , PTO , CIO , technology , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller

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