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Recession's latest victim: U.S. innovation

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CNNMoney.com; By David Goldman 		Mail this story
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U.S. innovation slowed this year for the first time in 13 years as the recession cut into budgets, and costs to protect inventions rose. The system is broken.. Pushing patents through the system is easier said than done: The decline in filings this year has brought to light a number of problems with the antiquated American patent system.

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Comments (2)

azerthoth ·
You confuse yourself sir. Patent does not mean innovation, especially given the suspect quality of patents that have pushed through. Might I suggest that patentable material has changed, rather that companies have seen the writing on the wall and that writing says Bilski.
bigg ·
It's too bad that brain dead articles have not been a casualty of the recession.

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