Remove Secrecy from Patents

[SueK (Susan)]

This may also apply with regards to the practice of locking down patents forever and restricting innovation and technological progress. Link provided:

Deregulate The U.S. Patent Office - Remove Monopolization & Revive Innovation

Currently, large corporations hire interns and others to do nothing by scour through the patent office looking for new ways to create patents (ie: digital assets and legal claims) from existing patents. Many times, when they find something, they reverse engineer the item or “invention”, modify a few key design specs, and send the modified blueprint and sample right back to the patent office to get a fresh patent on it and have monopolistic control over it for many more decades. Corporations main…