Response from White House petition to end software patents - Polidicks

[quote][B]Promoting Innovation and Competitive Markets through Quality Patents[/B] By Quentin Palfrey Thank you for your petition asking the Obama Administration to direct the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to stop issuing software patents and to void existing software patents. We are committed to reforming the patent system in a way that puts patent quality first and promotes innovation and competitive markets. On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the America Invents Act, which will help American entrepreneurs and businesses get their inventions to the marketplace sooner so that they can turn their ideas into new products and new jobs. The America Invents Act was passed with President Obama's strong leadership after nearly a decade of effort to reform the Nation's outdated patent laws. It will help companies and inventors avoid costly delays and unnecessary litigation, and let them focus instead on innovation and job creation. Congress recognized that more needs to be done to review and weed out overly-broad patents that have been issued in the past, and the recently enacted legislation provides important tools to invalidate certain overly-broad patents that might inhibit innovation, including those involving software. For example, the new transitional post-grant review program will help the USPTO take a closer look at certain business method patents, including a number of software patents. Other tools for cost-effective and speedy in-house review of granted patents will also become available in less than a year under the new law. The America Invents Act directly addresses certain categories of patents, like patents involving tax strategies, but it did not change the law regarding the patentability of software-related inventions. There's a lot we can do through the new law to improve patent quality and to ensure that only true inventions are given patent protection. But it's important to note that the executive branch doesn't set the boundaries of what is patentable all by itself. Congress has set forth broad categories of inventions that are eligible for patent protection. The courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have interpreted the statute to include some software-related inventions. Even before the legislation passed, the Administration took other important steps to ensure that only high-quality patents are issued, and that we curb or invalidate overly-broad software patents. For example, the USPTO recently issued guidance to its examiners that tighten up the requirements that inventors fully describe, specify, and distinctly claim their inventions so that vague patents are not issued. We've also issued new guidance to examiners to help ensure that patents cover only "new" and "non-obvious" inventions. As we begin to implement the new law, patent quality will be at the top of our minds. As Director Kappos recently explained, "[w]hile speed is essential to a well-functioning USPTO, patent quality is the sine qua non of our success, and we are all deeply committed to ensuring patent quality." We will tackle a number of important questions in the coming months, and we invite you to work with us to implement the new law in the most effective way possible. To help facilitate that dialogue, we have set up a public implementation website at [url]http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation[/url], and we'd love to hear your comments by email, postal mail or in person at a number of public events that are listed on the implementation site. Through that process, you can help us work through important questions on how to implement provisions of the new law, like inter partes review, post grant review, and covered business method patents. We understand that the concern about software patents stems, in part, from concerns that overly broad patents on software-based inventions may stifle the very innovative and creative open source software development community. As an Administration, we recognize the tremendous value of open source innovation and rely on it to accomplish key missions. For example, the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan recently announced that the source code for We the People and Data.gov would be open sourced for the entire world. Federal agencies are likewise spurring innovation through open source energy. For example, the Department of Defense issued clarifying guidance on the use of open software at the Department. And, the Department of Health and Human Services has become a leader in standards-based, open sourced policy to power innovations in health care quality and enable research into efficient care delivery. The tremendous growth of the open source and open data communities over the years, for delivery of both commercial and non-commercial services, shows that innovation can flourish in both the proprietary and open source software environments.[/quote] [B]Source:[/B] [url=https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/promoting-innovation-and-competitive-markets-through-quality-patents]Link[/url] Okay, so this is officially a fucking stupid new system they decided to make.

"Please, send us petitions, so we can do nothing about it and insult your intelligence by telling you the same bullshit we spew all day anyways"

Well, they acknowlege the issues but don't do anything about them.

So basically, all these internet petitions on the white house website, are going to end up like all the other internet petitions.

[QUOTE]"invalidate certain overly-broad patents"[/QUOTE] You mean like "Scrolls"?

Once again, they tell us they are going to do something, only to turn around and say "blah blah, no, current policy, blah, etc."

You guys should have seen the whole point of this petition system in the first place. All its meant to do is inform people why a lot of what they want can't happen easily or at all at present. They can't just come out and start saying it without being prompted because that'd make them look bad, so they use this petition system to say it.

America! Fuck Yeah!

Can anyone give me a tl;dr version? I'm sorry but thats a mighty wall of text, for so little time.

[QUOTE=DiBBs27;33071853]Can anyone give me a tl;dr version? I'm sorry but thats a mighty wall of text, for so little time.[/QUOTE] Basically "we are going to keep on as is" covered under the general "as you know, we are working to reform and make it good". Of course, they have no intention of stopping.

[QUOTE=tinhead50;33071616]You guys should have seen the whole point of this petition system in the first place. All its meant to do is inform people why a lot of what they want can't happen easily or at all at present. They can't just come out and start saying it without being prompted because that'd make them look bad, so they use this petition system to say it.[/QUOTE]The replies are simple Google searches.. When I read their responses, I feel like I'm looking at a FAQ section on Wikipedia.

the white house should be datamining these petitions for ammunition to use for campaigning for 2012 but no they just reject literally everything against current policy

I'm more interested in how they'll reply to the petition to take the petitions serious.

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;33072122]I'm more interested in how they'll reply to the petition to take the petitions serious.[/QUOTE] "No."

[QUOTE=GunFox;33071513]"Please, send us petitions, so we can do nothing about it and insult your intelligence by telling you the same bullshit we spew all day anyways"[/QUOTE] It says in the response, the executive branch has no power to set what is and what isn't patentable. It also states the Administration's thoughts on open source software, which I did not know before, and it shows what steps the Administration has taken to reform patent law for modern times. Unless you seriously thought the executive branch has the authority to suddenly disregard thousands of patents, effectively bypassing an entire branch of government, I think this is a fine response.

This petition website is just supposed to be way for the Obama Administration to answer queries about policy. You'd have to be crazy to think Obama's going to hold a press conference and declare marijuana to have his personal blessing because some people petitioned for it. Things just don't work that way. If the Obama Administration reacted to these petitions, they'd actually be [B]marginalizing[/B] the causes behind them because the Obama Administration would no longer be taken seriously.

[b]Yes we can[/b] do nothing to change our current policies for the better

So every response to those petitions that I've seen were just "lolno" Weren't they suppoused to be debated in the congress or something, instead of some random dude just defending the Status Quo?

[QUOTE=Hidole555;33071566]You mean like "Scrolls"?[/QUOTE] More like patenting swipe to unlock lockscreens on a touch screen device etc.

[QUOTE=tinhead50;33071616]You guys should have seen the whole point of this petition system in the first place. All its meant to do is inform people why a lot of what they want can't happen easily or at all at present. They can't just come out and start saying it without being prompted because that'd make them look bad, so they use this petition system to say it.[/QUOTE] Well at least it's a unified and clean way of doing it, rather than fragmented and coverage and explanations by news media outlets and Fox News spinning it.

Well this lost it's support fast. Talking about the site, not the petition.

Once again the US Government sticks its fingers in its ears and screams NEENER NEENER at its problems.

[QUOTE=PyroCF;33072843]More like patenting swipe to unlock lockscreens on a touch screen device etc.[/QUOTE] More like RAMBUS. Cunts.

People hoping that because an online petition gets enough votes, that the white house should automatically send it through congress. Come on people, please be serious.

I still support the man. After all, this shit, you'd never see from conservatives. At [B]least[/B] they actually respond. [editline]1st November 2011[/editline] Hell, at least he does far more to listen than them...

[QUOTE=Hidole555;33071566]You mean like "Scrolls"?[/QUOTE] I didn't think a trademark was a patent.

[QUOTE=RyanDv3;33072554]This petition website is just supposed to be way for the Obama Administration to answer queries about policy. You'd have to be crazy to think Obama's going to hold a press conference and declare marijuana to have his personal blessing because some people petitioned for it. Things just don't work that way. If the Obama Administration reacted to these petitions, they'd actually be [B]marginalizing[/B] the causes behind them because the Obama Administration would no longer be taken seriously.[/QUOTE] what a world we live in, where it's considered crazy to think that in a democratically elected leader would support the wishes of his people

[QUOTE=Lachz0r;33079951]what a world we live in, where it's considered crazy to think that in a democratically elected leader would support the wishes of his people[/QUOTE] Except this isn't a hive mind and no one has the same wish, you can't just go and change something just because some people want it.

More condescending, canned bullshit to thinly disguise the fact that they don't really care what we think.

somebody create a petition that says they have to go through with the petitions