Obama signs 1st major patent law change since 1952 - WTOP.com
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The bill is meant to ensure that the patent office, now facing a backlog of 1.2 million pending patents, has the money to expedite the application process. It now takes an average of three years to get a patent approved. More than 700,000 applications have yet to be reviewed.
"Somewhere in that stack of applications could be the next technological breakthrough, the next miracle drug," Obama said. "We should be making it easier and faster to turn new ideas into jobs.""
"The president signed the bill after touring Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., where he examined student projects, including a wheelchair that responds to brain waves"
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, have you ever heard of TJHSST?
I did.
My wife and I went there numerous times, between 2004-2008, for some reasons.
Parental reasons. :)
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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST, TJ, Jefferson) is a Virginia state-chartered magnet school located in Alexandria, Virginia, United States.[2]
As a publicly funded and administered high school with selective admissions, TJHSST is often compared with notable public magnet schools, although it did get rid of non-application based admission after the class of 1988. Attendance at TJ is open to students in six local jurisdictions based on an admissions test and prior academic achievement. The selective admissions program was initiated in 1985 through the cooperation of state and county governments, as well as corporate sponsorship from the defense and technology industries.
"It was also ranked #1 among "America's Best High Schools" in a study by U.S. News and World Report since 2007.[3][4][5][22]
Princeton University in that order. [MY NOTE: Princeton campus became familiar to my family, in the past 3 years...:) ] Other graduates attend Ivy League schools and high-ranking public and private schools across the nation.
For schools with more than 800 students in grades 10-12, TJHSST was cited as having
the highest-performing AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry,
AP French Language,
AP Government and Politics: U.S.,
and AP U.S. History courses
among all schools worldwide."
Truth be told: there are several PRIVATE high-schools in America who are also VERY good. :)
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"The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third President of the United States. The neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope. It was built by Philadelphia contractor John McShain. Construction began in 1939, the building was completed in 1943, and the bronze statue of Jefferson was added in 1947.[3]========================
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