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Innovation is the key to companies who want to prosper. Innovation is also made up of intellectual property, trade secrets, and an edge over the competitor, whether national or foreign. Therefore, we need to expedite patent reform to allow for that innovation to be a tool for growth and expansion of small businesses in America today. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) needs to meet their obligation to process filed patents in a timely manner.

At the USPTO, once the original patent filing application search is completed and the examining group decides to reject the patent, the course of action is that it can be appealed. Should you win the appeal, the USPTO should issue the patent.

Instead, the USPTO initiates a new search, starting the process all over again, causing patent applicants to accrue attorney fees, and delaying the use and development of intellectual property. This has become a common practice among the examining groups at the USPTO and they are rewarded for doing it. This action has cost small businesses in this country millions of wasted dollars every year. The practice is stretching out pending patent applications for more than seven years.

“Small Business” should not be a talking point for politicians, but rather a call to action, restoring resourceful people to gainful employment, which our nation desperately needs.

Invest in small businesses and see how fast this economy turns around and the unemployment rate falls.

Please NOTE:

The Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of USPTO David Kappos states:

“The Office is taking steps to deal with patent application backlogs, long waiting periods for patent review, outdated information technology systems that are regarded as outdated and an application process in need of reform.”

In the Director’s Forum David Kappos states:

“As you all know, reducing the backlog of unexamined patent applications and driving patent pendency down is our top priority.  This goal is especially urgent at a time when our economy is struggling, and the patent backlog is stalling the delivery of innovative goods and services to market while hindering economic growth and job creation.  It has been estimated that the current backlog of more than 700,000 applications may cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars due to what is called “foregone innovation”— commercial opportunities that fail to get off the ground because of long delays in obtaining necessary patent protection.  That is unacceptable and we are determined to turn things around because so much depends on it.”

The question remains, when will the issues at the USPTO get resolved, and why are they not making a more diligent effort when the unemployment rate stands at 9.5%?

I would like to thank the United States Senator Bob Corker (R) of the great State of Tennessee for the help his office has offered to our company while working with the Federal Government. Senator Corker places an emphasis on small business. Senator Corker realizes the importance of the men and women who own small businesses as well as the employees who work for them, not only in his state, but throughout America. His concern is that America holds on to small businesses and he enthusiastically works to maintain a strong trade balance in our country.

Also, please note that neither the two Democratic United States Senators of the Commonwealth of Virginia, nor the Democratic President of the United States of America have offered help or even responded to six letters sent to them with the same concerns.