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Another giveaway

Couple of things not to like:

"Another major change would be to award a patent to the first person to submit their paperwork to the Patent Office. Currently, patents are awarded to the first person who concocted the invention, a timeframe that can be difficult to prove."

Watch the big corporations flood the patent office with applications for other people's inventions. More importantly, this sounds like they're doing away with prior art as a basis for a patent challenge.

"Other changes the bill would make include recalculating the way damages are awarded--in a way that would make large jury awards more difficult to win--and make it more difficult to seek court injunctions."

It's not the threat of a jury award that stifles innovation, it the threat of having to finance a defense of a lawsuit, whether the claims have merit or not.

"Probably the most sweeping change would be the creation of a process to challenge patents after they are granted by the Patent and Trademark Office. "Opposition requests" can be filed up to nine months after a patent is awarded or six months after a legal notice alleging infringement is sent out."

A statute of limitations on patent challenges?

Good grief! Congress gets bolder and bolder when it comes to rewarding contributor ansd screwing the economy and the public.



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