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White House May Name Patent Reform Opponent As New Head of Patent Office
An anonymous reader writes The Obama Administration is set to appoint Phil Johnson, a pharmaceutical industry executive, as the next Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, according to sources. The move is likely to anger patent reform advocates given Johnson's past efforts to block legislation aimed at reining in patent trolls, and in light of his positions that appear to contradict the White House's professed goal of fixing the patent system. The top job at the Patent Office has been vacant for around 18-months since the departure of previous director David Kappos in early 2013. Currently, the office is being managed by former Googler Michelle Lee, who was appointed deputy director in December. Earlier this month, Republican Senators led by Orrin Hatch (R-UT) sent a letter to President Obama that praised Lee but that also described the current USPTO management structure as "unfair, untenable and unacceptable for our country's intellectual property agency."
I think it's because of the fact that the republicans in Congress vowed that they would do everything in their power to stonewall this president, and also with the continuous lies and fake "scandals" that the republicans have been trying to get to stick (BENGHAZZIIIIIII). They take away from the real problems with Obama... this one in particular.
It's no accident, though, that the republicans have ignored this and the Wheeler appointment. It's right from their playbook.
The Supreme Court did NOT just say your employer can dictate what kind of birth control you use your health insurance to buy... They ruled that the federal Government cannot force your employer to pay for your abortion BIG DIFFERENCE. You wanna kill yer kid? Go for it... BUT NOT ON YOUR EMPLOYER'S DIME (unless your employer agrees to pay, which many do). The Hobby Lobby people were perfectly willing to pay for over a dozen forms of conception control, JUST NOT THE FORMS THAT KILL A HUMAN EMBRYO. The Hobby Lobby people were NOT asking for the right to block employees from buying their own abortifacients or out-right medical abortions... they were only saying that they should not be forced to pay for a murder as part of the "cost of doing business"
Nobody forces anybody to take a job at Hobby Lobby, and Hobby Lobby's own employees were not sueing for this coverage... President Obama was simply demanding that the family that owns Hobby Lobby either violate their beliefs or go out of business; the man's an evil (supports child killing, refuses to uphold his oath to see that the laws are faithfully enforced, spies on everybody and uses drones to enforce his personal "kill list", etc) fascist (Merging corporate and government entities by force to push his policies) bastard (the bastard part is actual documented fact, read the mans AUTOBIOGRAPHY). You people on the left would be screaming bloody murder if President Bush had demanded that all employers buy a supply of Bibles (or Rush Limbaugh books, or other things YOU do not like) for their employees or be fined millions of dallars and be driven out of business; you're only angered here because your desire to jam your foul and obnoxious beliefs down other people's throats was thwarted.