Government Hits Inventors With Double Whammy But You Can Fight For Restoration Of 17-Year Term
This year inventors will be hit with a double whammy: First The Government passed the GATT Law which eliminates the 17-year minimum patent term and now the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in increasing its fees, effective 1995 October 1. While we can’t do much about the higher fees without a drastic change in the [...]
Who Invented the Atomic Bomb?
Federal funding of science exceeds 70 billion dollars a year–$250 for every man woman and child in the United States. The almost blind acceptance of Establishment Science as the only right way to create inventions and discoveries is based in large part on the Manhattan Project and the invention of the Atomic Bomb. But how [...]
The Myth of Submarine Patents
As far as one can tell, the catchphrase “submarine patent” cropped up for the first time during the propaganda campaign to make the 20 year patent term proposal palatable. When the Democratic Administration was anxious to obtain the vote of the newly elected Republican Senate majority for the GATT Uruguay Round Implementation Act, Mr. Kantor, [...]