Expect a Flood of Competitions As US Tries To Spur Public Inventions

coondoggie writes "When it comes to stirring the brains of genius, a good competition can bring forward some really great ideas. That's the driving notion behind myriad public competitions, or challenges, as they are often labeled, that will take place in the near future sponsored by the U.S. government. The competitions are increasing by design as part of the $45 billion America Competes Act renewed by Congress last year that gave every federal department and agency the authority to conduct prize competitions, according to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy."

Re:Patents Are The Problem

[Samantha Wright]

No! All we need to do is throw more money at the problem! Money always solves everything!

And In China...

[DroolTwist]

... they are having competitions to see who can steal the ideas from our competitions first!

Re:You're not thinking trollish enough.

[berashith]

you will owe me. I have already filed for the process of taking any currently used activity, process, or action and converting said activity to be in use "on a computer". I have also patented the next step of commiting these actions alone or in combination with other actions on linked devices, both using physical connectivity to a network , or wirelessly. Pay up, bitches!