Steve Reiss, Patent Attorney: Los Angeles/Orange County/Inland Empire

One senator's overconfidence in Congress' abilities to judge patentability relative to those of the Patent Office.

Stupidity in the Senate, circa 1878.

Oh, troll talk in 1879. Yawn.

The same speech has been given every year for over 100 years!

It's not all about coffee, though the argument always seems to fall back that way. Hey, if it keeps the public's attention away from ugly cat toys, who can complain.

Was I reading too much into this?

Does it mean what you think it means?

A Light-hearted discussion on Crank Inventors.

In 1919, there was a proposal made that the Patent Office should have "Field Agents". The idea went nowhere.

Patents as a deceptive form of reward... "John Prince-Smith was convinced that patents, 'in so far as they are to secure rewards to inventors, are the worst and most deceptive form of reward, causing more often losses than profits even to the inventors.'" Cited in, The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century, by: Fritz Machlup and Edith Penrose, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 10, No. 1 (May, 1950), pp. 1-29 John Prince-Smith (London, 20 January 1809 Berlin, 3 February 1874) was an English-born, German free trade liberal and politician (wikipedia.com).

We are glad to report that we had a very successful month-long training at our LA office for a Japanese patent agent of one of our major clients. It was exciting! Yeah, I need a haircut.

I am proud to announce that YP Jou, Hua Chen, Leon Hsu, and I recently had an article published in IAM.

" Had I been reasonably certain of getting an increase every year, say of $200, I doubt very much whether I should have left when I did." - Anonymous (1918)