{"id":3704,"date":"2011-08-15T19:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T00:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2011-08-15T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T00:57:00","slug":"bezos-and-oreilly-on-patent-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/bezos-and-oreilly-on-patent-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezos and O&rsquo;Reilly on Patent Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/news\/amazon_patents.html\">Jeff Bezos, in 2000<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tightwind.net\/2011\/08\/jeff-bezoss-patent-reform-ideas\/\">Kyle Baxter<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/news\/amazon_patents.html\"><p>If done right&mdash;and it could take 2 years or more&mdash;we&rsquo;ll end up with a patent system that produces fewer patents (fewer people will bother to apply for 3 or 5 year patents, and fewer patents means less work for the overworked Patent and Trademark Office), fewer bad patents (because of the pre-issuance comment period), and even the good patents won&rsquo;t last longer than is necessary to give the innovator a reasonable return (at Internet speed, you don&rsquo;t need 17 years).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/patents\/\">Lukas Mathis&rsquo; list<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos, in 2000 (via Kyle Baxter): If done right&mdash;and it could take 2 years or more&mdash;we&rsquo;ll end up with a patent system that produces fewer patents (fewer people will bother to apply for 3 or 5 year patents, and fewer patents means less work for the overworked Patent and Trademark Office), fewer bad patents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}