Intellectual Property
Feb. 24, 2014
Out in the cold: individual inventors and patent reform
One problem that most of the current plans to "reform" the patent system ignore is how changes will affect individual inventors. By John V. Picone and Cary Chien
"Corporations have time, money, and power on their side. All Bob Kearns had was the truth." This was the quote from the 2008 film "Flash of Genius" based on the real-life story of Robert Kearns, an inventor and patent holder, who battled a multi-year litigation with Detroit automakers who he claimed stole his idea for the intermittent car windshield wiper.
Kearns' story is not uncommon in the fabr...
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