{"id":3656,"date":"2011-01-31T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2011-02-18T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T04:28:43","slug":"david-kappos-testimony-before-house-subcommittee-on-intellectual-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"David Kappos&#8217; Testimony Before House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Updated<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>David Kappos testified before the House Subcommitte on Intellectual Property last week in a hearing entitled &#8220;How an Improved U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Can Create Jobs.&#8221;\u00a0 You can watch his testimony here.\u00a0 The House had to stand in recess\u00a0during the hearing\u00a0in order to vote on the House floor.\u00a0 So, the first video shows the first part of the hearing and the second video shows the second part.\u00a0 Mr. Kappos&#8217; written statement is available here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kappos01252011b11.pdf\">Link<\/a>].\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At about the 27 minute mark into the second video, Mr. Kappos comments that in a matter of days\u00a0the PTO is going to publish new rules in the Federal Register for the PTO&#8217;s Track I examination program.\u00a0 That program would guarantee a first office action within 3 months and a decision on patentability\/grant within 12 months.\u00a0 The fee would be $4,000 (with no small entity break, given the PTO&#8217;s current limitations on fee setting authority).<\/p>\n<p>If you have difficulty viewing the clips below, you might try this link for the full video: [<a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.edgeboss.net\/real\/judiciary\/ip\/ip01252011.smi\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><EMBED SRC=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Kappos Part A.rm\" CONSOLE=_master WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 NOJAVA=true CONTROLS=ImageWindow><\/p>\n<p><H4>Video 1<\/H4><EMBED SRC=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Kappos Part A.rm\" CONSOLE=video1 WIDTH=44 HEIGHT=26 NOJAVA=true CONTROLS=PlayButton> <EMBED SRC=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Kappos Part A.rm\" CONSOLE=video1 WIDTH=26 HEIGHT=26 NOJAVA=true CONTROLS=StopButton><\/p>\n<p><H4>Video 2<\/H4><EMBED SRC=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Kappos Part B.rm\" CONSOLE=video2 WIDTH=44 HEIGHT=26 NOJAVA=true CONTROLS=PlayButton> <EMBED SRC=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Kappos Part B.rm\" CONSOLE=video2 WIDTH=26 HEIGHT=26 NOJAVA=true CONTROLS=StopButton><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated David Kappos testified before the House Subcommitte on Intellectual Property last week in a hearing entitled &#8220;How an Improved U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Can Create Jobs.&#8221;\u00a0 You can watch his testimony here.\u00a0 The House had to stand in recess\u00a0during the hearing\u00a0in order to vote on the House floor.\u00a0 So, the first video shows [&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\/3656"}],"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=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}