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Senator Hatch's Patent Ideas
Utah’s Senator Hatch introduced a patent reform bill last Friday just before the Senate recessed. The bill includes a provision that would change the method o determining who should get a patent from first-to-invent to first-to-file.
Almost all other countries have first-to-file patent awards, but a change in the U.S. would disadvantage small inventors who often don’t have the money to go through the patent process, said Ronald Riley, president of the Professional Inventors Alliance. The entire bill for fees and legal representation during a patent application costs on average about $15,000, Riley said.
Many large tech vendors “have a vision of a reformed patent system where they can take inventors’ property with virtual impunity,” Riley said.From Inventors object to new patent reform bill
Referenced Wed Aug 09 2006 09:45:44 GMT-0600 (MDT)
Of course, I’m just shocked that Sen. Hatch would sponsor a bill that advantages big business over small innovative companies. Hatch has shown time and again that he is completely out of touch with the needs of the tech community in Utah.
Posted by windley on August 9, 2006 01:00 PM
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I assume that's "shocked" as in, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" (Casablanca, 1942)
Posted by: Tom at August 10, 2006 09:47 AM
It is not just the tech community that Hatch is out of touch with.
Posted by: Rob Miller at August 14, 2006 04:00 AM
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