As part of the fanfare leading up to the Copenhagen climate talks this past December, the U.S. Government announced a pilot program to accelerate processing of certain patent applications directed to green inventions. Initially, the concern was that the program would be quickly oversubscribed, but as it turns out there have been relatively few takers so far. Does this indicate that the clean technology industries do not want prompt action on their patent applications?
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