America Screws Up Patent Reform
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on August 7, 2006 at 1:23:54 PM
Senators Hatch and Leahy (who are bought buy the media cartels and others) (Proof 1, (Proof 2) have proposed a 'fix' to the current patent system. The new bill does nothing about the bogus software patents and process patents plaguing the system and shifts from a first to invent to a first to file system. Little inventors get screwed while big companies win out yet again. I guess it is cheap to purchase legislation in this country.
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Called the Patent Reform Act of 2006, the measure followed two years of hearings, meetings and debate, the senators said. It bears a number of similarities to a bill offered last summer by Texas Republican Lamar Smith in the House of Representatives. Specifically, it would shift to a "first to file" method of awarding patents, which is already used in most foreign countries, instead of the existing "first to invent" standard, which has been criticized as complicated to prove. Such a change has already earned backing from Jon Dudas, chief of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.