{"id":8187,"date":"2012-11-10T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8187"},"modified":"2012-11-10T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T22:04:00","slug":"one-in-six-active-u-s-patents-pertain-to-the-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8187","title":{"rendered":"One in Six Active U.S. Patents Pertain to the Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If anything illustrates the absurdity of the current state of affairs in the patent system, it is that the smartphone handset market \u2014 although booming \u2014 accounts for less than 1% of the U.S. annual GDP (by U.S. sales) but encompasses 16% of all active U.S. patents.***<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-disco.org\/intellectual-property\/one-in-six-active-u-s-patents-pertain-to-the-smartphone\/\">One in Six Active U.S. Patents Pertain to the Smartphone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To put the absurdity of the current system into perspective, scholars Christina Mulligan and Timothy B. Lee\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2016968\">estimated<\/a> that it would take roughly <strong>2,000,000 patent attorneys working full-time<\/strong> to compare every software-producing firm\u2019s products with every software patent issued in a given year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anything illustrates the absurdity of the current state of affairs in the patent system, it is that the smartphone handset market \u2014 although booming \u2014 accounts for less than 1% of the U.S. annual GDP (by U.S. sales) but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[301,34,436,874],"class_list":["post-8187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-patent-trolls","tag-patents","tag-smartphones","tag-software-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8189,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions\/8189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}