Starting in 2005, and this is how this open government work in the U.S. really got started, I was teaching a patent law class to my students and explaining to them how a single person in the bureaucracy has the power to make a decision about which patent application becomes the next patent, and therefore monopolizes for 20 years the rights over an entire field of inventive activity.
Počevši u 2005., a na ovaj način je  rad otvorene vlade u SAD-u zapravo počeo, predavala sam patentsko  pravo mojim studentima i objašnjavala im kako jedna  osoba u birokraciji ima moć napraviti odluku koja će prijavu za patent  pretvoriti u sljedeći patent, i tako monopolizirati prava na  sljedećih 20 godina kroz cijelo područje  inovativne aktivnosti.