US House Takes Up Major Overhaul of Patent System

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @08:34AM from the cleaning-things-up dept.

Bookworm09 writes "The House took up the most far-reaching overhaul of the patent system in 60 years today, with a bill both parties say will make it easier for inventors to get their innovations to market and help put people back to work. Backed by Obama and business groups, the legislation aims to ease the lengthy backlog in patent applications, clean up some of the procedures that can lead to costly litigation and put the United States under the same filing system as the rest of the industrialized world."

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Damned Liberal agenda..??? by MrLint · 2011-06-22 08:42 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Isnt this the part where the conservatives should be screaming about changing American traditions, selling us out to the European bureautacracy? And so on? Why shouldn't our antiquated system of patents be defended as viciously as our antiquated system of marriage?