How Lobby Groups Rejected the Canadian Government's Plan To Combat Patent Trolls

Posted by timothy on Monday October 20, 2014 @02:51AM from the they-just-didn't-like-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes Michael Geist reports that according to documents recently obtained under the Access to Information Act, the Canadian government quietly proposed a series of reforms to combat patent trolls including new prohibitions on demand letters, powers to the courts to stop patent forum shopping, and giving competition authorities the ability to deal with patent troll anti-competitive activity. The problem? Business lobby groups warned against the "unintended consequences" of patent reforms.

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Re:Unintended Consquences by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-20 03:42 · Score: 5, Informative

What a cute way of saying loss of campaign financing...
Corporate donations for federal elections are prohibited by law in Canada, and individual contributions to political parties (including donations to registered candidates for a political party) are limited to $1200 per year.
That being said, Canada's current ruling party has violated campaign financing rules in the past (see: In and Out scandal.)