Political Quotes

“I must tell you that we are so fortunate that we have Director Kappos. We have a true expert in patents, with great knowledge, who has made tremendous strides in making great changes at our Patent Office. But he requires a steady stream of money, and he requires the ability to manage the organization in a way where he can actually accomplish what we have asked him to do. Frankly, I have spent a lot of time working with the Patent Office-- not with everybody else who wants an advantage in the patent system but with the Patent Office--and I am convinced we have great leadership there. In his letter, he talks about their inability to update their IT because the money is not there because we will not let him have the money--their money, the money from the American taxpayers. Let me give a corollary. If, in fact, you drive your car into the gas station, you give them $100 for 25 or 28 gallons of gas, and they only give you 12 gallons of gas and they say: Sorry, the Appropriations Committee said you couldn't have all the gas for the money you paid, you would be outraged. If you go to the movie, you pay the fee to go to the movie and you buy a ticket, you walk in, and halfway through the movie they stop the projection and say: Sorry, we are not going to give you the second half of the movie even though you paid for it--inventors in this country have paid the fees to have their patents examined and evaluated and reviewed.…”