{"id":2454,"date":"2013-12-02T16:31:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2013-12-02T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:31:48","slug":"the-new-york-times-december-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2454","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times (December 1, 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretically \u201cpatents provide an incentive for inventors to generate new products and services by giving them a temporary monopoly on their creations.\u201d Over little more than a decade, however, patent applications have more than tripled to 576,000 in 2012 and \u201cthe Patent and Trademark Office appears to have granted many that are overly broad or vague.\u201d The result has been frivolous lawsuits filed by patent trolls. Currently proposed legislation in Congress will help reduce the frivolous lawsuits, but it doesn&#8217;t \u201cdirectly address the underlying problem of vague and overbroad patents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretically \u201cpatents provide an incentive for inventors to generate new products and services by giving them a temporary monopoly on their creations.\u201d Over little more than a decade, however, patent applications have more than tripled to 576,000 in 2012 and \u201cthe Patent and Trademark Office appears to have granted many that are overly broad or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2998,46,3002,2997,3000,2217,3004,2999,3001,674,3003],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-applications","tag-congress","tag-frivolous","tag-inventors","tag-lawsuits","tag-legislation","tag-overbroad","tag-patent-and-trademark-office","tag-patent-trolls","tag-patents","tag-vague"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}