Court Blocks Controversial New Patent Rules

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek is reporting that a court in Virginia has issued an injunction against controversial new patent rules that were supposed to go into effect tomorrow. The court granted a motion filed by GlaxoSmithKline, which is suing the US patent office over the issue. Among other things, the new rules would limit the extent to which existing patent applications can be modified. The patent office says the new rules would speed up the patent process, but critics say they hurt inventors."

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Re:What really needs to happen is to remove.....

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Once that is done, the patent office will have more time to spend on patent applications that do have patentable material.

Great thinking, then the small guy can stop focusing on innovating and just go work for large software companies and look for innovations coming from either 1) the idiots left who continue to innovate without patent protection or 2) look to foreigners who innovate in their country. Then copy-paste those innovations into the large companies next product release. Hey why even spend the effort looking for and copying-pasting the innovations - we could just outsource that too and sit at home all day collecting our paycheques