{"id":802,"date":"2005-05-15T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2005-05-15T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2005-05-15T12:49:11","slug":"innovation-and-its-discontents-and-patent-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Innovation and its discontents, and patent reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1115370308794\">this law.com<\/a> article, Innovation and its Discontents has helped to spur the current drive for patent reform.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legislators were also spurred into action by a book &#8212; &#8220;Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It&#8221; &#8212; published last year by business professors Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Stephen Fox, Hewlett-Packard&#8217;s deputy general counsel of IP, noted at a conference in San Francisco on Wednesday that members of Congress have been reading it and even marking particular pages.&#8221;They&#8217;re using it to get a perspective into the patent system,&#8221; Fox said. It&#8217;s given them &#8220;an aha moment &#8212; that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this law.com article, Innovation and its Discontents has helped to spur the current drive for patent reform. Legislators were also spurred into action by a book &#8212; &#8220;Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It&#8221; &#8212; published last year by business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Innovation and its discontents, and patent reform&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-cW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}