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US Shutdown Is Good News For Patent Trolls

Posted by samzenpus on from the nothing's-going-to-slow-us-down dept.

judgecorp writes "It's just a sidebar on the US government shutdown but, while agencies including NASA and NIST are displaying blank websites, the US Patent and Trademark Office is running as normal because its funding is guaranteed by the US Constitution. Thus, patent trolls can continue to file bogus business patents, while the FTC is closed and can't combat them, and the Department of Justice can't handle appeals and enforcement."

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  1. terrorists and traitors by dltaylor · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If any other bunch of zealots, domestic or foreign, created enough chaos to shut down significant amounts of the US Federal Government, they'd be labelled as terrorists, hunted down and shot.

    Why not the Members of the House that have done the same?