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Change You Can Believe!

Posted on Monday, 18th May 2009 by Gene Quinn

At many times over the past year or so I have been terribly skeptical about Barack Obama, and when he was elected President of the United States I really feared for the future in many regards. I am still not convinced about the economic direction of the country. After all, if the Obama economic plan works it will be exactly the first time in recorded history where massive spending and higher taxes worked to pull a nation out of recession. I can’t say I see the wisdom in following a path that has no success stories to point to, particularly when the exact opposite has worked every time it has been tried. Nevertheless, I can’t say the Obama economic plan won’t work, and to keep optimistic perhaps we should say that massive spending and higher taxes are about due to spawn a recovery, right? Sort of over due, because even bad policies are successful from time to time, right?

I am not writing this article to bash the President or his economic plan, although I couldn’t help myself. What I am really writing to discuss is the fact that for the first time I think I can see the change the President and his supporters have talked about for so long! Many of his supporters probably thought the “change you can believe in” slogan meant departure and change with respect to policies of President Bush. Who knew that the change you can believe would wind up being President Obama continually changing his mind and adopting Bush national security and terror policies! This gives me hope that eventually the President will realize that he cannot close the prison in Guantanamo Bay, and since I live in Northern Virginia I really hope he will change his policy on letting Al Qaeda trained terrorist loose to live in Alexandria and on government welfare. For now, I will remain optimistic. After all, President Obama seems to almost weekly adopt another Bush policy on national security and terrorism. Now that is change I can live with!

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Innovation Solution to US Economy with USPTO Help

Posted on Monday, 18th May 2009 by Gene Quinn

As I have been writing for many months on my IPWatchdog.com blog, innovation and technology have historically lead us out of recessions. This is true because when scientists and engineers lose their jobs they face no opportunity costs associated with pursuing their own inventions. These creative and energetic individuals develop technologies that lead to the creation of new industries, but given the dysfunctional state of the U.S. patent system we cannot and should not expect innovation and technology to save us unless there are dramatic and sweeping changes at the U.S. Patent Office and inventors and companies actually get patents issued to them rather than being endlessly denied and prevented from acquiring the rights that are the prerequisite to encouraging funding from investors. You see, the nasty little secret that so many seem to want to ignore is that innovation requires funding, and funding requires patents. To help the U.S. economy we need more funding for the Patent Office and leaders dedicated to tackling the problem, as was President Reagan.