USPTO Unable to Find Top Ten Patent Holders

lelitsch writes "So a journalist tries to interview the top ten patent holders in the US. As he finds out, neither the USPTO, nor the patent processing companies are able to identify them. Even more surprisingly, "America's greatest inventor is apparently an obscure guy in Japan who makes stuff most people can't comprehend. And the nation's greatest native inventor seems to be a man who has come up with 100 different ways to make a flower pot.""

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[iggymanz]

Are we really, as most of us imagine ourselves, the leaders of innovation in the world? Or are we its entertainment center? We try to be its policeman and end up with egg on our faces for the last 40+ years. We're certainly getting good at being the consumers, with 25% of the world's produce consumed by us, and our wealth flying out over the ocean, much of it never to return. We're an oligarchy of megacorps too, big business is stacking the decks in its favor at the expense of our rights and our ability to express our political will. We used to scorn the communist nations as a place where the individual was nothing and the state everything, now for us its all about Uncle Sam and big business.