Other companies have fronted for the NSA. Crypto A. G. in Switzerland was selling enigma boxes to foriegn governments for years with full knowledge and cooperation of the NSA. (And without telling anyone that Enigma had been broken during WWII.)
what it takes to get a patent nowdays. It involves multiple thosands of dollars just to submit it. Even worse if you create it and do not patent. Then some big company can patent it from under you and sue you for patent infringement.
For more information as to why the USPO needs to be fscked, see Phil Karn's page.
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Other companies have fronted for the NSA. Crypto A. G. in Switzerland was selling enigma boxes to foriegn governments for years with full knowledge and cooperation of the NSA. (And without telling anyone that Enigma had been broken during WWII.)
what it takes to get a patent nowdays. It involves multiple thosands of dollars just to submit it. Even worse if you create it and do not patent. Then some big company can patent it from under you and sue you for patent infringement.
For more information as to why the USPO needs to be fscked, see Phil Karn's page.