{"id":727,"date":"2011-05-08T06:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T21:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=727"},"modified":"2011-05-08T06:23:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T21:23:31","slug":"the-economist-may-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"The Economist (May 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->The U.S. Patent Office issued 244,358 patents in 2010. That\u2019s the good news. The bad news is that there is a back log of over 700,000 applications. \u201cOn average, hopeful inventors wait for two years until their applications are even considered. Ten months more may go by before they learn whether they have been successful.\u201d As Congress has further cut spending, the backlog is expected to worsen. The Economist believes the wait stymies innovation. \u201cWhile they wait for a decision, the American economy is losing out.\u201d<!--:--><!--:ja--><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Patent Office issued 244,358 patents in 2010. That\u2019s the good news. The bad news is that there is a back log of over 700,000 applications. \u201cOn average, hopeful inventors wait for two years until their applications are even considered. Ten months more may go by before they learn whether they have been successful.\u201d As Congress has further cut spending, the backlog is expected to worsen. The Economist believes the wait stymies innovation. \u201cWhile they wait for a decision, the American economy is losing out.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Patent Office issued 244,358 patents in 2010. That\u2019s the good news. The bad news is that there is a back log of over 700,000 applications. \u201cOn average, hopeful inventors wait for two years until their applications are even considered. Ten months more may go by before they learn whether they have been successful.\u201d [&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":[46,13,324,674,8],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-congress","tag-economy","tag-innovation","tag-patents","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}