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America Is The Only Major Country That Tries To Ascertain Who Was The First Applicant To Invent The Product Or Procedure. This May Seem Fair, But Long Proceedings To Determine Precisely When Each Party Conceived An Idea Result Mostly In Keeping Innovations From Hitting The Market.

Wall Street Is At Best Ambivalent. The Size Of The Accounts Is Nothing Big. How Many Wall Street Firms Do You Know That Are Running After People With $5,000 Accounts?

I've Seen People Spend Days, If Not Months, Researching And Gathering Data, But Only At The End Did They Finally Figure Out What They Were Really Looking For; Then They Have To Redo A Lot Of Stuff. If After A Day Or So You Force Yourself To Put Together Your Tentative Conclusions, Then You'll Have Guidance For The Rest Of Your Research.

The Quality Of American Patents Has Been Deteriorating For Years; They Are Increasingly Issued For Products And Processes That Are Not Truly Innovative - Things Like The Queuing System For Netflix, Which Was Patented In 2003. Yes, It Makes Renting Movies A Snap, But Was It Really A Breakthrough Deserving Patent Protection?

You Have Various Institutions Like Law Firms And Accounting Firms Which Bill By The Hour. I'm Really Against That. You Have An Incentive To Go Slowly, Be There As Long As Possible, To Over-research Things And Over-staff.