Political Quotes

“There is an urgent need to improve the patent system. Patent examiners are burdened with many applications and are encouraged to move quickly on each one of them. And as they do their work, they are isolated from an important source of highly relevant information. That information source is the knowledge that individuals may have that the work that is the subject of the patent application may, in fact, not be original, that someone else, in fact, may have invented that particular object, and that that object has been in use prior to the time that the application was filed. That information we call ``prior art.'' The existing patent process contains no avenue for third parties who may possess information about prior art to submit that to the patent examiner while the application is being examined.”