{"id":2712,"date":"2010-08-06T17:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T23:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2010-08-06T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T23:45:49","slug":"billion-dollar-bolus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2712","title":{"rendered":"Billion Dollar Bolus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably already saw retired Chief Judge Michel&#8217;s editorial in\u00a0yesterday&#8217;s New York Times (and mentioned on the Patently-O blog today).\u00a0 If not, here is the link:\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/06\/opinion\/06nothhaft.html\">LINK<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the $1 B infusion into the Patent Office is to reduce the backlog of patent applications\u00a0over the next few years.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t sent the article to your clients,\u00a0congressional representatives,\u00a0or editor at your local business journal, you might want to do so.\u00a0 After all, all politics is local.\u00a0 Here are links for helping you contact your local congressperson, if you are interested in doing so: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/house\/MemberWWW.shtml\">HOUSE<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/general\/contact_information\/senators_cfm.cfm\">SENATE<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>While it is easy to see where the PTO could spend the money and increase staffing, increasing the ranks of registered patent attorneys to respond to the increase in applications being processed\u00a0could be a different matter.\u00a0 I suspect associate salaries could be in store for a roller coaster ride if such funding is secured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably already saw retired Chief Judge Michel&#8217;s editorial in\u00a0yesterday&#8217;s New York Times (and mentioned on the Patently-O blog today).\u00a0 If not, here is the link:\u00a0[LINK]. The goal of the $1 B infusion into the Patent Office is to reduce the backlog of patent applications\u00a0over the next few years.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t sent the article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}