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The USPTO, currently headed by nobody following the resignation of Director Andrei Iancu, grants monopolies on ideas, including algorithms (since Martin Goetz started it). Under the leadership of David Kappos it has done nothing substantial to appease critics and limit patent scope. We also wrote on the subject in the following writings.

Andrei Iancu

Martin Goetz

David Kappos

2007

Reforming USPTO: Patently Absurd – The Video

“Open Source“ to USPTO’s Rescue?

Patent Madness Watch: When USPTO Becomes Incompatible with Consumers’ Needs

USPTO: Eliminating Young Companies While Defending Abuse by Giants

The Latest Patent News: USPTO Reform Attacked, Sun Attacks, Vonage Settles

Video: PBS on USPTO Reform

2008

Does the USPTO Like Its System Broken?

Regrets Over USPTO’s Decision to Permit Software Patents

It Must Be Official: The USPTO is (Brain) Dead

USPTO As Broken as Always, Proof Herein

ISO: The New USPTO (and It’s Not a Compliment)

Software Patents Roundup: EPO, USPTO and Acacia

Patents Roundup: High Court Imposes a USPTO on the UK-IPO, INNOVA~1 Goes Backwards

Acacia Buys Google Kryptonite, USPTO Urged to Change

Signs That USPTO Should RIP: Company/Individual Patents the Mobile Computer

Patent News Roundup: USPTO Madness, Novell’s Role, and Patent Shame

USPTO Hall of Shame, Blackboard’s Setback and the Art of Not Sharing

Microsoft Sued Over Patents Again, Linus Complains, USPTO Welcomes P2Patent

Fixing the Problem at Its Core — USPTO and Lobbying

Patents Roundup: Linux, India, Microsoft, the Trolls, and the USPTO

Data and Signals Seen as Patentable in the USPTO

Microsoft Seeks to Own Page-flipping, Using the Broken USPTO

2009

Robbery in the USPTO, More Software Patent Lawsuits, and Rise in ODF’s Popularity

Patents Roundup: Red Hat Again; EPO and USPTO Debated

David Kappos Can Reprimand IBM for Mocking the USPTO’s Intelligence

Microsoft’s Patent Megatroll is Boosting for the USPTO

New USPTO Director to Be Appointed, Bad News for Freedom

Patents Roundup: Bilski, USPTO and Justice for the Rich Only; ‘Community’ Patent and ‘Harmonisation’ in Europe

USPTO’s David Kappos Starts Blog, Should Read Blogs Also

Patents Roundup: Red Hat, Former USPTO Commissioner on Patent Demise, and WIPO Notes

USPTO Leaves People Dead. Is the Intellectual Monopoly Doctrine Practically Dead Too?

USPTO Implicitly Admits It’s Broken

2010

USPTO is Imperialistic

David Kappos Does Not Understand Why the USPTO is Broken

USPTO Receives Overwhelming Opposition to Software Patents

Bilski Decision Likely Released This Monday, USPTO Urgently Needs a Reform

David Kappos (USPTO Head) Declines to be Part of the ACTA Treaty Fiasco, Won’t Respond

Patents Roundup: Cracks in the USPTO, Patent Trolls, and More About Theora

Eye on Patents: The USPTO is Failing

Novell Continues to Exploit Broken USPTO and Collect Even More Software Patents

“The USPTO Has Blown Smoke and Lived in a World of Denial and Obfuscation”

USPTO Wants Feedback About Post-Bilski Guidelines, EPO Might Let Monsanto Patent Life

Federal Government Less Patents-Friendly Than USPTO, Apple’s Embargo Attempt (With Patents) Fails ITC Judgment

Bogus Oracle Patents, Broken USPTO, Apple’s Patent Aggression, and Acacia Gets More Money to Troll

FSF and EFF Challenge Software Patents at the USPTO, Nature (Journal) Wants EPO to be Like USPTO, and Patent Trolls Roam Free in Land of the Free

USPTO Starts Rejecting Software Patents While Germany Mistakenly Overrides the Law and Approves Microsoft’s

Patents Roundup: USPTO Workshop, Bilski Action, and Patents-Imposed Death

Patents Roundup: USPTO Changes, New Zealand’s Law Ambiguity, Facebook and Apple Sued

Patents Roundup: USPTO Grants Patents on Hotdogs and Harbours Pyramid Schemes, EPO in Transition, and Apple Turns Nasty

Obama Finally Slams the USPTO, But Parrots Talking Point from Microsoft and Intellectual Monopolists

Patents Roundup: ACTA Inevitability Claimed, USPTO Patently Failing, China Against Patents in Standards, Monsanto in Court

2011

USPTO Ridiculed

USPTO: Not a Joke, But Sure Looks Like One

USPTO’s Violation of the First Amendment, Competition Laws, and Spirit of Creation

USPTO Drives American Software Developers Away to Other Countries

The USPTO Has Gone Corrupt

EPO More Popular/Responsive Than the USPTO

Latest Evidence That the USPTO is Morbidly Ill, Costing the Economy; Real Reform Likely

Patents Roundup: Patent Lawyers, USPTO ‘Thieves’, Apple, and Microsoft

USPTO Has Patents Blocking American Innovation, Brainwashed European Minority Wants to Emulate This Mess

Cablegate: USPTO, JPO, and EPO Prepare a Global Patent System

Patents Roundup: Twitter and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, USPTO and SCOTUS

The Patent System — USPTO in Particular — Comes Under More Fire

Head of the USPTO is Confused, Defends Software Patents and Patent Trolls

USPTO is Driving Away Businesses to Countries Like New Zealand, US-based Multinationals Attack New Zealand With Imperialistic Patent Lobbying to Assimilate Policies

The EPO Goes Down the Same Abyss as the USPTO

Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’

With Failure to Reform USPTO, Grim Future for Patent Systems Worldwide

Latest Examples of the Failure of the USPTO, With Emphasis on Software Patents

New Cracks in the US Patent System

Cost of Patent Trolls Studied as Acceptance of USPTO Falls, Developers Complain Even in Press Releases

2012

USPTO Imperialists Want Their Ponzi Scheme imposed by IPONZ

The US Patent System Shows More Weaknesses

With IBM Executive Running the USPTO, IBM Tops Patent Monopolists List

New Evidence Arrives to Support Patent System Overhaul While EFF Pressures Congress

In the Age of Defective Patent Systems, Google Receives Patents to Defend Android From Lawsuits

Perspectives on the USPTO and Software Patents

Life Still Patentable in the US

Kappos/IBM Part of the Patent Monopolies Disease, Enabling Cartels

USPTO and SCOTUS Abducted by Corporations

Patents Roundup: Microsoft Front the BSA Promotes Software Patents, Kappos Helps the Rotten System

David Kappos Quits, USPTO is Headless

SCOTUS Can Show Support for Public Interests by Stopping USPTO’s Systemic Corruption

USPTO Sued as the System Collapses Under the Weight of Trolls, Monopolists, and Lawyers/Politicians

USPTO Continues to Fail Where India is Succeeding

USPTO is Broken, Evidence is Abundant

2013

Quantity Over Quality, or Why the US Permits Software Patenting

USPTO Denies the Option of Eliminating Software Patents and Other Controversial Patents

USPTO Antagonises Change, Apple Continues to Lean on Patents and Trademarks

FRAND Quite Likely the First Casualty at USPTO, Not Patents (Directly)

Patent System Errors of Scope

USPTO ‘Debate’ Already Rigged by Patent Lawyers

USPTO Drives Business Out of the US

USPTO in Doubt

Apple Keeps Losing Patent Cases, Now Pursues Trademarks on Designs!

USPTO Approves Another ‘Slide to Unlock’ Sham

USPTO Shows That It Wants to Go Global

USPTO Patents Are Comedy, EFF Strives to Change That

Federal Reserve Economists Want to Abolish USPTO, Unrest Reaches Unprecedented Levels Due to Patent Trolls

USPTO’s Software Patents ‘Roundtable’ is Rigged

USPTO a Driver of Patent Trolls, Drives Innovation and Sharing Out of the US

USPTO Selling Lives

No Genuine Debates About Real Patent Reform, Just Covert Patent Expansion

USPTO Drives Linux Phones Out of the United States, US Citizens Speak Out Against Software Patents, Politicians Concerned

Groklaw’s Good Suggestions for the USPTO, China Follows USPTO’s Mistake

USPTO and Lundberg Deceive the Public on Patents

USPTO Worse Than Before With First-to-File System, Microsoft’s Patent List Meaningless

Apple’s Case Against Android May Collapse as USPTO Reaffirms Incompetence

USPTO is Out of Control and Needs to be Rebooted (or Booted Out)

Microsoft and BSA Among Participants in USPTO-Organised Biased ‘Debate’ About Software Patents

The SCOTUS-endorsed USPTO’s Bet Against Public Life and the Bribery for Patent Policy

The Steep Decline of the Patent System: Scope Expanded While Barriers Lowered, USPTO Promotes Yet More Patenting

When GNU/Linux Backers Can’t Tell the USPTO That It’s Broken, Software Patents Illegitimate

White House Should Identify USPTO as the Problem, Not Patent Trolls

USPTO to be Partly Headed by Google Executive

2014

USPTO Still a Sham; Microsoft, Apple and IBM Still Part of the Problem and Google/Linux a Common Victim

David Kappos Fatally Killed Quality at the USPTO and Killed Fairness in Industries as a Result

‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ in Reverse: USPTO Gets Even More Extremist With New White House Appointment

White House Backs Away From Appointing Patents Zealot to Top USPTO Position

USPTO Officially Sets New Guidelines to Limit Scope of Software Patents in the United States

Investigation Reveals That USPTO is Corrupt, Time to Abolish It or Annul Nearly a Million Patents

The USPTO is Broken: New Evidence Presented

2015

Growing Resistance to Software Patents in the US While USPTO Expected to Review Subject Matter Eligibility

Alice Case Beats Microsoft Patent Troll, USPTO Director Michelle Lee Wants Reform

Wanted: USPTO Whistleblowers

USPTO Watch: Patent Bubbles, Patents on Life, and No Prior Art Search

Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks

Witnessing the Patent Mess That the USPTO Created

2016

Technology Companies at CES Lash Out at the USPTO for Enabling 'Extortion Rackets'

Why the Corporations-Leaning US Political System Does Not and Will Not Help Resolve the Patent Chaos

USPTO Doubled the Number of Granted Patents in Just a Few Years, Demonstrating Very Sharp Decline in Patent Quality

The Greedy USPTO Leaves Loopholes, “Per Se”, for Patenting of Software in the United States Despite the Alice Case

Software Patents in the US -- When Properly Challenged in an Age of Extreme USPTO Leniency -- Simply Die

USPTO Still a Fine Mess, ITC Restricted as Sanctions/Embargo Enforcer

The United States Still Has Software Patents Because of USPTO Greed, Incapacity for Criticism/Change

Criticisms of the Patent System of the United States, Which is Imposed on the Rest of the World Using Corporate Lobbyists and Attracts or Creates Patent Trolls

USPTO Ignores a Lot of Cases Against Software Patents to Justify Resumption of More Software Patenting

The Circus of Patent 'Reporting' (by Omission) on the Subject of Software Patents in the US and USPTO Bias

IBM, Google and Microsoft Patent Stockpiles Demonstrate That Today’s US Patent System Exists for Billionaires, Not for Inventors

Fourth-Busiest Quarter for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Which Invalidates Software Patents That USPTO Foolishly or Selfishly Granted

The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over

Large Corporations' Lobbyist David Kappos Disgraces Former Employer USPTO by Meddling in Their Affairs on Software Patents, Downplaying the Supreme Court

Internal USPTO Documents Reveal a Battle and Protest Over Software Patenting

USPTO Fraud Accusations and the 'Coverup' Attempt by USPTO Circles Inside the Corporate Media

USPTO Director Michelle K. Lee Reportedly on Her Way Out, US Patent Reform Put on Hold

Director Lee's USPTO Managed to Drain the Swamp Filled by David Kappos and His Colleagues, But Trump Will Likely Dismiss Her Soon

USPTO Echo Chamber That Lacks Actual Software Professionals Deciding on Patentability of Software

The USPTO Helps Large Businesses Crush Small Businesses

2017

Doomsday Scenario in the Back Mirror as Michelle Lee Keeps Her Job (and Much-Needed Patent Reform) at the USPTO

Michelle Lee, USPTO Director, Should Recognise That the Patent Microcosm is Her Enemy Which Hates Her

Matt Levy (Computer and Communications Industry Association) Welcomes Michelle Lee as USPTO Director

Yes, Michelle Lee is Still in Charge of the US Patent Office, in Spite of the Patent Microcosm's Endless Attacks on Her

USPTO Shoots Itself in the Foot by Granting a Patent on Paper Bag

The US Patent Office (USPTO) Should Now be Headed by Drew Hirshfeld, a Patent Examiner Who Rose to the Top, Not a Lawyer Like Joseph Matal

The USPTO Report on Section 101 is Somewhat Farcical as Input Comes From the Patent Microcosm, Not Producing Companies

The Section 101 USPTO 'Debate' (for a 'Report') is a Bunch of Lawyers Debating Among Themselves, No Engineers/Scientists Involved

To Save Face, USPTO Ought to Stop Granting Software Patents Altogether

Donald Trump Wants a Patent Maximalist in Charge of the USPTO

Trump's USPTO Nominee is a Supporter of Software Patents

Unless Physical, Inventions Are No Longer Patent-Eligible in US Courts, But USPTO Ignores Precedence

USPTO Starts Discriminating Against Poor People, and Does So Even When They Rightly Point Out Errors

Wilbur Ross, Connected to Putin's Direct Family, Puts Iancu (Patent Microcosm) in Charge of the USPTO

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is Calling for Greater Transparency at USPTO and US Patent Courts

Next Director of the USPTO Parrots Talking Points of Patent Extremists and Their Lobbyists

Andrei Iancu in Charge of the United States Patent Office (USPTO) Would be a Patent Microcosm Coup

2018

Top Rank at USPTO Goes to the Biggest Patent Bully, IBM

USPTO May Get a New Director Tomorrow, But It's Not Good News

Andrei Iancu's Firm Has a History Working With Trump, But Senate Says OK to Him Becoming USPTO Director

The Campaign to Subvert the US Patent Office by Misrepresenting Its Successes

Andrei Iancu Begins His USPTO Career While Former USPTO Director (and Now Paid Lobbyist) Keeps Meddling in Office Affairs

Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month

USPTO Will Have a Crisis of Legitimacy If Its Officials Work as Lobbyists and Cooperate With Villainous Think Tanks

The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law

USPTO Has a 'Revolving Doors' Problem

Post-AIA, Post-Alice/§ 101 USPTO Still Granting Software Patents in Defiance of the (Case)Law

When the USPTO Grants Patents in Defiance of 35 U.S.C. § 101 the Courts Will Eventually Squash These Anyway

In Spite of Resistance From the Patent Microcosm the USPTO Strives to Improve Patent Quality

Patent Microcosm and New USPTO Director Against Patent Quality Assurance

USPTO Craziness: Changing Rules to Punish PTAB Petitioners and Reward Microsoft for Corruption at ISO

If David Chiles Turned the USPTO Into a ‘Microsoft Shop’ That Might Explain Three Days (or More) of Outages

The USPTO Still Down (for Nearly a Week): Multiple Systems Not Accessible

The USPTO's New Strategic Plan Should be to Keep Services Available and Actually Explain a Week's Downtime

The Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) Needs to Instruct the Patent Office to Stop Treating Applicants as Customers/Clients

USPTO FEES ACT Makes the US Patent Office a Money-Making Machine That Systematically Disregards Patent Quality

The USPTO is Hopeless, Unlike Patent Courts That Have Become the Target of Ridicule by the Patent 'Industry'

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Under Andrei Iancu Subjected to an Assault on Patent Quality

The USPTO's Principal Issue is Abstract Patents (or Patent Scope), Not Prior Art Searches

USPTO FEES Act/SUCCESS Act Gives More Powers to Director Iancu, Supplying Patents for Litigation 'Business' and Embargo (ITC)

USPTO Under Iancu: Making Patents Low Quality (Again)

PTAB- And Court-Bashing USPTO Director Consistent With 'Presidential' Behaviour in Age of Donald Trump

The USPTO Under Director Andrei Iancu Actively Disses the Courts and Attacks Fundamental Patent Law

Andrei Iancu and Laura Peter Are Two Proponents of Patent Trolls at the Top of the USPTO

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Must Be Based on Justice, Not Profits

Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101

2019

Number of Patent Applications, Not Just Number of Patent Grants, Continues to Slide in the United States

USPTO Director Iancu Works for Anti-SCOTUS (Against Section 101) Lobbyists

Director Iancu Generally Viewed as a Lapdog of Patent Trolls

Where the USPTO Stands on the Subject of Abstract Software Patents

Just Published: Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office

Technology Groups Implore the Deplorable Patent Office of Iancu and Trump

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) 'Disses' Iancu's Guidance on 35 U.S.C. § 101, Sides With the Supreme Court (Alice) and Caselaw

USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics

USPTO and EPO: Call Software Patents 'Hey Hi' ('AI') and Use Microsoft Software (or Else!)

USPTO Rewards Microsoft for Corruption at ISO by Teaching People Proprietary OOXML and Promoting Its Use

2020

Invalid Patents 'Great Again'?

2021

As Andrei Iancu Removes Himself From the Patent and Trademark Office All Eyes Are on Biden’s Next Nomination

Conflict of Interest: Microsoft and IBM Controlling the USPTO and Leaving GNU/Linux Users Shut Out (in the Cold)

USPTO for Monopolies, Keeping GNU/Linux in the Dark

USPTO Promotes Microsoft Monopoly and Proprietary Software

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Has a Deep Revolving Doors Crisis (Former Officials Cashing in as Lobbyists and Private Sector Actors)

Challenging David Kappos, Seeking Accountability Over His Corporate Legacy as IBM/Microsoft 'Mole' Inside the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Meme: 12 Years of Corporate Deplorables Running the USPTO

Microsoft-Captured USPTO Doubles the Fines for Patent Applicants That Don't Use Microsoft

President Biden Wants to Put Microsofter in Charge of the Patent Office, Soon to Penalise Patent Applicants Who Don’t Use Microsoft’s Proprietary Formats

2022

Microsoft is 'Taking Over' USPTO Like It Did at EPO

As Microsoft Vidal Takes Over USPTO the Push Towards Microsoft's Proprietary and Defective Formats Takes the Next Step

Microsoft Vidal Does Not Want to Listen (USPTO is Just for Megacorporations)

Microsoft Vidal, as USPTO Director, Already Plays ‘Political Cards’ to Disguise and Deflect Away From the Corporate Agenda

Heads of Patent Offices Are Immune to Coronavirus

Remember Who Biden's Administration Put in Charge of the US Patent Office

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