Submitted by Thomason, May 8, 2007 09:48

"Some patent protection was given to inventions that failed to show real innovation or real progress, and patents for original inventions were consequently deprived of their full value."

That latter part of that statement is misinformed, uninformed, or just plainly wrong. Often improvement patents are more valuable to their inventors than the more rudimentary predecessor versions of the invention. Also, the first part of your statement implies that the laws are written to accord patent protection where the inventor can prove "real" progress or innovation, which too is mistaken.

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