{"id":984,"date":"2017-01-04T13:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2017-01-04T12:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:52:18","slug":"patent-law-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/legislation\/patent-law-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent Law Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>We would like your opinion and open up a discussion on this topic:<\/h3>\n<p>Given that a new legislative session has begun in the USA and that technology advances so much faster than other areas of industry, should patent terms last for less than the traditional 20 years, enabling a faster adoption of proven innovation?<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/secure.polldaddy.com\/p\/9362941.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/9362941\/\">Should Patent Terms be shortened for technology?<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for participating<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"949\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/legislation\/patent-law-poll\/attachment\/slide-image-2-300x140\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slide-image-2-300x140.jpg?fit=300%2C140\" data-orig-size=\"300,140\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"slide-image-2-300&#215;140\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slide-image-2-300x140.jpg?fit=300%2C140\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slide-image-2-300x140.jpg?fit=300%2C140\" class=\"alignright wp-image-949\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slide-image-2.jpg?resize=150%2C70\" alt=\"slide-image-2-300x140\" width=\"150\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that technology advances so much faster than other areas of industry, should patent terms last for less than the traditional 20 years, enabling a faster adoption of proven innovation? Answer the poll question&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/iStock_000015346122Large.jpg?fit=2716%2C1810","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-fS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}