America Invents (NOT) Act Moving Forward in Senate
According to the excellent blog Gametime IP “The cloture vote will occur on Tuesday, September 6th after 5:30pm. Cloture will cut off debate and bring Patent Reform to a final vote.” This is bad news for independent inventor, bad new for American innovation, and bad news for the U.S. economy.
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author is Dale B. Halling. Mr. Halling is patent attorney and entrepreneur. As a patent attorney, Mr. Halling, has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies including, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Motorola, Ameritech, SBC, MCI, Cypress, and numerous technology start-ups. He has helped his clients obtain patents worldwide. Mr. Halling has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University, an MS in Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas and a JD from St. Louis University. Mr. Halling is the author of the book “The Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Known Laws are Killing Innovation.”
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In fairness, the vote should take place on 9/11/2011, the ten year anniversary of an earlier attempt to take America down.
Except this attempt, by them that hates Yankee Ingenuity, will succeed –with the help of all our allegedly-patriotic Senators. A “streamlined” stab to the back and take down of the American Inventor. (Etu Brutus?)
Comment by step back | August 4, 2011 |
So true. Perhaps that will be when Obama signs it.
Comment by dbhalling | August 4, 2011 |
Patent reform without an end to fee diversion is useless. Period. No, wait, it’s worse than useless — House provisions such as the prior user rights nonsense and post-grant measures could certainly tip a patent reform bill toward the balance of “doing more harm than good” … IF such bill does not include a complete stop to the practice of fee diversion. I mean, good Lord, didn’t President Obama even mention the importance of ending fee diversion during his latest major public address (thank you, Mr. President, for bringing up patents again!)? I mean, what exactly is it going to have to take to make our legislature behave in a mature and rational manner (a leading and loaded question, I know)??
Comment by patent litigation | August 9, 2011 |