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Obama To Sign 'America Invents Act of 2011' Today

Posted by Soulskill on from the system-and-method-for-inhaling-oxygen dept.

ideonexus writes "President Obama will be signing the 'America Invents Act of 2011' into law today at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. The bill will transition America from a 'first-to-invent" to a 'first-to-file" country, but critics argue that the bill fails to address the more important problem that 'nobody can tell what a patent covers until they've spent months or years working it out, often in the courts.'"

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  1. Re:America Invents? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Like the PATRIOT act. The title is an ironic opposite of what the act actually does.

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  2. Re:America Invents? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First to file.

    Now.

    Raise filing fees and barriers to protect incumbent interests.

    Why not? In Amerika today, money has already become the right to vote, and the right to speech.

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    Never been known to fail..."