White House Takes Steps Against Patent Trolls

itwbennett writes "The Obama administration on Thursday launched a website with information to assist people and businesses targeted in patent lawsuits or receiving patent demand letters. The White House also announced that it would launch a new crowdsourcing initiative focused on identifying prior art (evidence of existing inventions) that the USPTO can use to reject bad patent claims and will expand a USPTO patent examiner technical training program by allowing outside technologists to help with the training."

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[Penguinisto]

You are stupid, and you are just looking fore excuses.
The fact that nearly every thing people complain about him is false tells me he must be doing something right.

1) How the frig did this ever get modded "Insightful"?

2) define "nearly every thing".

• -- His administration botched the healthcare.gov rollout - big-time.
• -- The ACA itself is unwieldy and unworkable, as attested to by his own delays of the enforced mandate on businesses, the demands by its political supporters for exemptions from it, and the demonstrable *increase* in medical/insurance costs for the vast majority of people in the middle class who are forced to use it.
• -- He completely mis-handled the whole Benghazi attacks - first withholding nearby military help, then blaming a YouTube video(!?) as the cause after quite a few unnecessary deaths.
• -- Loudly threatening to attack Syria when the rest of the US was screaming at him to shut the hell up, costing the nation a lot of prestige as Vladimir Putin had to come in and put a stop to the threats.
• -- His strident partisan rhetoric and unwillingness to even think of working with the opposition is bald-faced and public. The opposition aren't angels either, but damn - at least Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan, Carter... all of them worked with Congress to get things done. Why can't Obama? It's not as if Congress was some sort of angelic, tame creature in previous administrations...
• -- We have yet to see a proposed annual budget from this administration, period.
• -- Preaching about income equality while his wife wears a dress that costs more than the average annual wage at poverty level? Really? I know this isn't a policy complaint, but damn that's just crass.

There's many more, but seriously, put the koolaid down. The man isn't a demon, but he certainly isn't a messiah.