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PTO Director Launches Blog

November 10, 2009

Kappos_AIPLA09.jpgU.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos launched a new blog Tuesday to "provide an open channel for sustained dialogue and the exchange of ideas." Kappos' first blog post focused on the agency's annual independent investors conference, which he recently attended. He also called on Congress to pass a patent reform bill and addressed concerns raised about the legislation. "I know that many independent inventors, like most segments of the [intellectual property] community, have concerns about some of the provisions in the bill, and I had the opportunity to address some of these concerns at last week's conference," Kappos wrote, adding that the legislation is "a vast improvement over what we have now - and there is a strong consensus that the status quo is simply unsustainable."

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