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Has the Supreme Court Made Patent Reform Legislation Unnecessary?
An anonymous reader writes: As Congress gears up again to seriously consider patent litigation abuse—starting with the introduction of H.R. 9 (the "Innovation Act") last month—opponents of reform are arguing that recent Supreme Court cases have addressed concerns. Give the decisions time to work their way through the system, they assert. A recent hearing on the subject before a U.S. House Judiciary Committee (HJC) Subcommittee shined some light on the matter. And, as HJC Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a long-time leader in Internet and intellectual property issues, put it succinctly in his opening remarks: "We've heard this before, and though I believe that the Court has taken several positive steps in the right direction, their decisions can't take the place of a clear, updated and modernized statute. In fact, many of the provisions in the Innovation Act do not necessarily lend themselves to being solved by case law, but by actual law—Congressional legislation."
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You said it, bro. I try sometimes to come in here and engage in enlightened discussion, with my logged in ID if that matters. But every once in a while I say, fuck it, what's the point, these assholes don't want to use debate as a means of determining truth, seeing which ideas survive challenge and which need to be abandoned, no, that's not their intention at all, they just want to feel "right" and significant for a whole moment or two to make up for some kind of shortcoming in their personal lives. Then I realize, there is nothing I can do to convince them not to be that way. Then I start trolling too. Fuck 'em. Offensive shit it is, then -- at least we all know where we stand then.