President Obama says patent reform has gone "about halfway to where we need to go", doesn't comment on unlocking phones

2. StrumerJohn posted on 15 Feb 2013, 00:22 3

Because he was never asked about Unlocking devices lol.

I watched the whole hangout Live, he was asked about how he's going to help control patent abuse, not anything specific to mobile devices.

4. rusticguy posted on 15 Feb 2013, 04:54 1

In a way he says he wants it to be fully supportive of Patent Trolling as reforms have only gone half way so far. When it goes full way Apple will not even go to extent of filing patents ... they will just get it over phone call :)

5. GhostBear posted on 15 Feb 2013, 05:19 2

Yet days earlier he gave a shout-out to Tim Cook, I'm thoroughly confused. This sounds like a case of greased palms.

7. VZWuser76 posted on 15 Feb 2013, 09:32 0

Here's the problem. He wants to make sure patents last long enough?! Most patents last around 15-20 years. Fine for most industries, but in the tech world (computers, cell phones, media players, software) that's a lifetime. Look at half that period - 10 years. Compare cell phones from 2003 to today. HUGE difference. At most for this sector I'd say 5 years. That's plenty of time to make a profit off the patent if there's money to be made.

10. Jonathan41 posted on 15 Feb 2013, 12:45 0

He's not trying to make patents longer. What he is saying is that there need to be a better balance. I huge companies shamelessly abuse the patent system after borrowing from other companies themselves *cough* Apple *cough*cough* Disney. But also what he is saying is that the patent system is a very important thing and shouldn't be shortened to an unreasonable length. It's a good thing that he is acknowledging that there does in fact need to be a lot more reformation in the patent laws but, I doubt he has any time to legislate for that though. Besides it's all up to congress as usually and you know how dependable they are at making decisions.