Discrimination Against Foreigners in the U.S. Patent System

The US patent system is broken.

In discussions in this issue of RBM Online relating to a patent granted to Auxogyn, Professor Renee Reijo Pera claims this is not about a "broken patent system". I shall demonstrate how dysfunctional the patent system has become and how much in denial 'inventor' Renee Reijo Pera is about her invention differing from a naturally occurring phenomenon.

US . Patent Jan

Veronis et al., “Theoretical investigation of compact couplers between dielectric slab Waveguides and two-dimensional metal-di electric-metal plasmonic Waveguides,” Feb. 5, 2007, Optics Express, vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 1211-1221.* Barnes, W., et al., “Surface plasmon subwavelength optics,” Nature Publishing Group, Aug. 14, 2003, vol. 424, pp. 824-830. BoZhevolnyi, S., et al., “Channel Plasmon-Polar...

US . Patent Jun . 16 ,

Christie, in Advances in Lipid Methodology-Two, pp. 195-213, Ed. Christie, Oily Press, 1993* Earlix et al., Dis. Aquat. Org., 27:19-24, 1996* Pettipher et al. (Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 44:809-813, 1982).* Bwatwa et al. (Abstract ANYL-349, Book of Abstracts, 229th ACS National Meeting, Mar. 13, 2005).* Besse et al. (Food Microbiol., 18:669-676, 2001).* Cloak et al. (J. Appl. Microbiol., 86:583...

US . Patent Jul .

Wage differentials between foreigners and locals - discrimination or unobserved skills ?

This paper analyzes a regulated trans-border labor market segmented by skills in the Canton of Ticino (Switzerland). Swiss regulation distinguishes two types of foreign labor force, i.e. trans-border commuters with de facto free access and immigrant workers regulated by quota. While wages are generally observed to be lower for trans-border commuters than for locals, immigrant workers accomplish...