NPR’s Marketplace on the patent provisions of the omnibus appropriations bill

National Public Radio’s Marketplace ran a piece this morning on the patent provisions of the appropriations bill.  NPR focused on the bill’s promise of additional funds for the hiring of new Examiners and used that as an entree for a critique of the current patent system.  Too bad NPR missed the hot issue of fee diversion.

The patent fees story starts at about the 4:30 mark in the audio file on the linked page.