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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. I don't get "First to File" by gameboyhippo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about first to do both. You would have to have an invention before you can file. Otherwise, I'm patenting time travel.

  2. Honesty in naming by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Again, I just posted on this in the previous story.

    HONESTY IN NAMING. Give that bill's number, make them read it. Of-course this will do nothing for Obama's reelection, but this "America Invents Act" will do nothing for inventions in America.

    There are 152 PAGES in that bill. (PDF warning)

    152 pages. You'd think to have America "inventing" you wouldn't need that. What you'd need is to stop punishing people for investments with inflation, taxes, regulations and insane spending, like that on wars. How about ABOLISHING the patent system altogether and abolishing all patents and refunding those that are pending by the way? Having a freer society, so that people could ACTUALLY INVENT AND INNOVATE without FEAR of being SUED?

    You think they'll stop wars in that bill? You think they'll stop inflation and encourage underconsumption, savings and investments?

    Please. It's about dates of filing, it's about law suits. It's about more government protections given to large corporations. It's about lawyers.

    The only 'innovation' that will be promoted by this bill will be lawyer innovation, innovative ways to file MORE LAWSUITS.

    That's all this is going to do - more lawsuits and actually less innovation and fewer inventions, as always the exact opposite of what the bill is named.

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  3. a.k.a "The Lawyer Bailout Bill" by sanzibar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/business/patent-bill-could-save-a-law-firm-millions.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y smoke and mirrors....