Inventors Protest Patent Reform Bill

narramissic writes "A group of inventors and U.S. company execs, among them Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway and the AutoSyringe, and Steve Perlman, inventor of WebTV and lead developer of Apple Inc.'s QuickTime, paid a visit to Washington to encourage Congress to defeat the Patent Reform Act. The inventors say the Act will weaken the patent system, devalue patents, and encourage infringement. A version of the act, which passed the House of Representatives earlier this month, is supported by several large tech vendors including Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco. The big companies hope it will make it harder for patent holders to sue and collect huge damage awards when only a small piece of a tech product is found to infringe."

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[roman_mir]

The inventors say the Act will weaken the patent system, devalue patents, and encourage infringement. - Good. I think the patent infringement should be encouranged, patents should be devalued and the whole patent system should be dismantled. Then again, I am an anarcho-capitalist/libertarian at heart, I must be crazy of-course.

Now copyrights, I don't have a problem with meaningful copyrights. It's just that the definition of 'meaningfull' differs from person to company.