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Patent Reform Bill Unable To Clean Up Patent Mess

Posted by Zonk on from the need-a-rake-and-a-hose dept.

First to submit writes "Ars Technica analyzes the Patent Reform Act that has passed the House and is being debated in the Senate. Unfortunately for those longing for real, meaningful patent reform, the bill comes up short in some significant ways. 'Despite the heated rhetoric on both sides, it is unclear if the legislation will do much to fix the most serious flaws in the patent system. A series of appeals court rulings in the 1990s greatly expanded patentable subject matter, making patents on software, business methods, and other abstract concepts unambiguously legal for the first time.'"

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  1. only good thing by esocid · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seems to be that patent trolls have to stick to jurisdictions they have a significant presence in, and can't go to courts that have been sympathetic to plaintiffs in patent cases. This isn't much of a reform to me. What about stopping these common sense patents and business model patents. Until that happens this is just a motion of appeasement, not a real solution to the problems.

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  2. Re:Tax Patents by Jurily · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which is also not what the original writers of the laws intended. Sorry.

    http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030919.html

  3. Re:Do we really need patents? by dedalus2000 · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was copyrighted not patented thus the need for the cleanroom design.

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  4. Re:Do we really need patents? by DrWho42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Patents and copyrights are intended to prevent people from free-loading off of the work of others

    This statement is factually false. Go and read the US Constitution if you want to know what patents and copyrights are actually intended to accomplish.