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>> 3. Eliminates fee diversion .... The USPTO is one of the few agencies of the US federal govt that are profitable. Congress diverts the funds away from the

• jcranmer 8y ago
  I didn't comment on the fee diversion because the text in the bill is a series of line edits to the appropriate section of the US Code, which means I'd have to go dig around the whole law to figure out what it was actually doing. As for the rest of it, I summarized the actual content of the bill itself. (It's only 26 pages, it's not that long). The bill explicitly refers to repealing the 2011 patent reform. It also explicitly refers to displeasure with the Alice and Lexmark rulings, and the entire bit about private property rights is clearly an attempt to overturn the recent Oil States ruling, even if not mentioned by name. There can be no doubt that the bill is trying to roll back patent reform.