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<tr><td><b>Comment Number: </b></td><td>540872-00009</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Received: </b></td><td>2/4/2009 2:11:17 PM</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Organization: </b></td><td>Salesforce.com, inc.</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Commenter: </b></td><td>Paul Durdik</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>State: </b></td><td>CA</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Agency: </b></td><td>Federal Trade Commission</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Rule: </b></td><td>Public Hearings Concerning the Evolving Intellectual Property Marketplace</td></tr>

<tr><td>No Attachments</tr></Table>

<hr><P><b>Comments:</b></p>The USPTO has sold itself to the largest of companies, simply rubber-stamping anything sent to it by Oracle or Microsoft, without regard to its quality.  Meanwhile, worthwhile inventions from smaller companies such as ours are subjected to needless delay and a barage of useless/irrelevant rejections to block the smaller company from obtaining a patent.  Larger companies then use their &quot;licensing programs&quot; to shutdown the smaller companies, who have nothing to defend themselves with, stifling innovation and destroying any competition.</body></html>