白宫今天引入了一项研究executive order intended to combat patent trolling。一段时间以来，专利一直是3D印刷领域进步和创新的重要障碍。所以……行政命令的效率有多有效？
Patent trolling, simply, could be defined as the dark art of buying patents to take advantage of US liability culture. Unfortunately the inexorable trend in loosely regulated free market economics is that anything that can be taken advantage of to make profit, will be taken advantage of to make profit.
The Whitehouse blog states:
‘越来越多的公司，通常被称为“专利巨魔”，他们采用这些诉讼策略作为商业模式，损失了数十亿美元的经济并破坏了美国的创新。在过去的两年中，专利巨魔提起的诉讼数量几乎增加了两倍，占美国所有专利诉讼的62％。总而言之，专利巨魔的受害者在2011年支付了290亿美元，比2005年增长了400％，更不用说股东价值的损失股价更多了。’
这是一种与创新战争越来越多的现象。
随着先发制人的专利正在从游戏中采取急需的概念，越来越多的公司发现自己正在参与这场战争。从2010年至2012年开始，在智能手机行业的专利诉讼和专利购买上花费了15-200亿美元。请参阅Apple和Samsung之间的智能手机战争。它变得如此强烈，以至于苹果公司试图为弯曲的智能手机角落申请专利。
新的行政命令将有助于与之作斗争吗？
可能。但可能不是那么多。为什么？
In 2011, US Congress passed the America Invents Act (AIA). It was not very brave, not very bold, an ultimately negligible in the face of pure lust for profit.
The US patent system’s administration facility, US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is under-staffed owning to small government mentality and other factors, and consequently has a 700,000+ backlog of unexamined patents. The order makes no attempt to change this.
Also, according to the Association of Corporate Counsel, a loophole in the AIA meant that patent trolls没有被一名中央租户被阻止：起诉多名被告。目的是，那些试图将一系列公司排队以获利的专利公司的人会发现很难触发扳机，而无需支付巨大的费用。这没有发生。
Akin to the AIA, today’s order lacks the means to address some primary and fundamental systematic flaws such as:
- 现有专利没有触及。那些巨魔建立的专利投资组合仍然完好无损。17年。
- US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) staffing is not addressed. Overly broad patents will be rejected. Given some of the technical depth of new patents, and the 700,000+ backlog, staff will not have much time to spot them.
- The白宫已经承认software patents are often overly broad, but doesn’t give recognition that it can be impossible for a programmer to avoid violating a patent on code. There is a certain analogy with the world ‘the’ being patented in the world of journalism.
尽管如此，这还是白宫朝着正确方向迈出的一步。面对联络爱好者的爱好者面对行政命令，就花了一项命令。在不受监管的市场中固有的诱惑是在2008年非常明显到期的，当时西方世界的经济简单，完全，完全崩溃了。有些人会指出“一些坏苹果”或“不可避免的打ic”。
Yet a generation are now beset with debt equivalent to the price of a house each. The houses that those individual’s parents purchased mortgages for with toxic assets. The houses they lost. That’s minus two houses for A LOT of people: people who only had one to begin with.
Patents, innovation, and economics, are very serious games.
当今的法规可能有助于这些游戏中的公平竞争。但是，这些游戏与将西方脱离危机的类型还有很长的路要走。这是一场比第一次世界大战的危机更长的危机。
However, to end on a positive, today may be a great day for product stand owners and smartphone designers everywhere.
不要在不尝试更改的情况下哀悼某事，我在推特上发了推文，问他们是否正在USPTO接任更多员工：
@whitehouse新的专利订单是否会与USPTO人员配备的增加相结合以帮助防止过度的专利专利？
— Dimensionext (@dimensionext)2013年6月4日
专利巨魔伤害了所有人，他们需要停止拖钓美国创新者 - >at.wh.gov/ligsm
- 白宫（@whitehouse）2013年6月4日
这是由总统经济顾问委员会，国家经济委员会和科学技术政策办公室编写的报告：专利主张和美国创新
