At IPWatchdog's Women's IP Forum, Coke Morgan Stewart, president and CEO of the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), said the U.S. patent system needs to be jolted into action. Stewart, a former acting director and deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, told attendees that "we need to get out the paddles and..." — a defibrillator metaphor suggesting the system requires an immediate, forceful intervention.
The report from IPWatchdog does not include the rest of her sentence, so the specific policy changes she has in mind are not yet public. Stewart's background gives her remarks particular weight: she has led the patent office and now heads the Council for Innovation Promotion. The forum setting also highlights the role of women in intellectual property leadership, though the source does not elaborate on that theme.
Because this is a single source, the details of Stewart's proposal remain incomplete, and no independent confirmation of her remarks is available.