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New Patent Legislation Makes Some Headway
dreamchaser writes "EETimes has an article discussing new legislation that will stop Congress from siphoning off money from the Patent Office. The hope is that increased money in the coffers will allow the hiring of more highly skilled engineers to look at technical patents, as well as speed up the sometimes ponderous process of securing a patent. The bill has passed the house with a resounding 379-28 vote, and now goes to the Senate. Given all the discussions about how so many bad patents are being granted, could this be a good thing?"
A step in the right direction, but isn't the relentless siphoning of funds from Social Security a more pressing issue? The longer we ignore these issues, the more momentum the debt train builds up and the harder it will be to stop it.
Every week the government takes money from my paycheck, ostensibly for my retirement. Then they spend the money for their own pet projects, and have no feasible plans for restoring those funds. If a bank did the same thing it would be called fraud, massive fraud. (Banks reinvest your funds they don't spend your money to pay expenses.)
That's right, the FTC, the folks that are supposed to protect us from online crime and scams, have an unsecured redirect script that has been hijacked for a tubgirl link. This should answer any questions that anyone has about whether the government will be able to help make the Internet a safer place.