Crossing party lines to disappoint everyone

Greg Aharonian, well known in patent circles for his PATNEWS blog, who is also a Democrat and BO supporter (at least up until BO got sworn in), now writes the below about the next possible Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, David Kappos, the man currently in charge of IBM's intellectual property.

As time goes on and situations present themselves, it's becoming more evident to more people, that BO was a wolf in sheep's clothing. Today the Democrats in the patent community; yesterday the financial backers of Chrysler who also voted for BO. Tomorrow, who's next? More importantly, what's next?

From the May 6, 2009 PATNEWS by Greg Aharonian:
Second, some emails going around has that one of the candidates for PTO Director, James Pooley, has confirmed this week his nomination as Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization. This pretty much puts him out of the running, leaving Todd Dickinson and David Kappos as the two frontrunners (Michael Kirk is a conservative Republican the examiner corps is not overly thrilled to have back).

Third, President Obama has upset high tech CEOS by promising to end tax breaks for U.S. companies that "create a job in Bangalore, India (rather than) one in Buffalo, New York". Does President Obama know that David Kappos' IBM has twice filed patent applications for methods to automate outsourcing U.S. jobs (retracting both apps in embarassment)? The latest app is 2009/083107. IBM India in 2002 had 4900 employees. Now? In 2008, IBM India had 98,000 employees. I ask President Obama, how many of these 98,000 employees were outsourced from "Buffalo" by IBM using technology in their patent applications managed by David Kappos?

Fourth, the PatentlyO blog points out two very disturbing Kappos comments that sound too similar to some of Jon Dudas' contempts: that "people no longer innovate individually" and that "many new innovations require investments of unprecedented size". Both are nonsense. In fact, someone tell President Obama that some of the best innovations in renewable and green technologies are coming from individuals and small teams spending their limited hard-earned dollars. I should know, for some of the best of this stuff I am asked to do patentability searches for. Yet, President Obama, once these true American inventors are ready to share their knowledge with the world in return for a patent, they face a patent examination pipeline clogged by IBM patents such as making reservations on an airplane to use the toilet. I find it hard to believe that Kappos won't carry these biases with him into the PTO, and act upon them. What message does President Obama send to the renewable/green entrepreneurs to
appoint a PTO Director who doesn't think such entrepreneurs even exist?