G. Nagesh Rao

G. Nagesh Rao is a former U.S. Patent Examiner and Senior Policy Advisor with the Department of Commerce-U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He represents the United States as a 2016 Eisenhower Fellow and Advisor to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program.

G. Nagesh Rao

While innovations like mobile payments and biometrics may one day change the way we safeguard consumer financial information in the digital age, we cannot neglect the here-and-now of both online…

Payment innovation: Take the better option now

Bill Gates recently penned an open letter to the 2016 presidential candidates, imploring them to support something he hopes “every candidate will agree on in November: America’s unparalleled capacity for…

As the smartphone wars reheat, the threat of chilling innovation looms

As a former patent examiner, I recognize that the patent system, in its purest form, should protect and incentivize innovation through a limited-term contract, offering exclusive monopoly rights covering a…

Innovation Act might be dead, but innovation lives on