Posted AT 10:46 AM EST on 15/09/08
Program goes online to improve patents
JOELLE TESSLER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S. patent system is broken — putting too many patents of dubious merit in the hands of people who can use them to drag companies and other inventors to court.
And Blaise Mouttet, a small inventor in Alexandria, Va., thinks he knows why.
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