To: null and void
1M patents ... X's ... 1K $'s = one billion dollars (( every 12 years ))!
845 posted on
05/09/2003 1:25:17 PM PDT by
f.Christian
(( Marching orders: comfort the afflicted // afflict the comfortable ! ! ))
To: f.Christian
A patent for an indvidual cost about $5K, for a company it's about $10K.
Plus attorney's costs...
Maybe $250M in revenue/year for the PTO. Pretty much a nothingth of a percent of the Federal Budget.
To: f.Christian
>> one billion dollars (( every 12 years ))!<<
I don't know how much money the patent office makes but I do know that it is one of the few government offices that makes more money than it spends. When Clinton shut down the government except for non-essential services, my husband still had to go to work every day.
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