President Trump must pick a PTO Director who believes patents are private property rights

The United States patent system has become so uncertain and unstable that many innovators are consciously choosing to keep their innovations as trade secrets, depriving the public of the most fundamental and important benefit of any patent system. Indeed, the steady demise of the U.S. patent system is what lead several concerned lawmakers like Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) to push hard for federal trade secret legislation — so at least innovators would have some kind of federal protection for their inventions as patents have become in many technological areas nothing more than an illusory promise.

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