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tl;dr - The measure would switch the United States from the "first-to-invent" system to the "first-inventor-to-file" system for patent applications. Tha
by huhtenberg 15y ago
tl;dr -
The measure would switch the United States from the
"first-to-invent" system to the "first-inventor-to-file"
system for patent applications. That change would put
the U.S. in line with other industrialized countries.
- danvideo 15y agoIt's unclear (at least in this article) whether the legislation makes much headway in the "little guy" vs. "patent troll" problem. Will this allow companies to file like crazy--everything under the sun--and block the "first-to-invent" people? Or would the change allow smaller companies more power once they file so bigger companies can't come along later and claim something had really been invented earlier that was similar...?
- littlebirds 15y agoFrom the link I posted here -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2977066 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2977066: The patent reform bill of 2007, which the current bill closely resembles[citation needed], was analyzed by the Deputy Director of IP division of Beijing High People's Court, Senior Judge, and he found that that the bill "... is friendlier to the infringers than to the patentees in general as it will make the patent less reliable, easier to be challenged and cheaper to be infringed. It is not bad news for developing countries which have fewer patents. Many of the Chinese companies are not patent owners in the U.S. market and their products are often excluded from the market because of patent infringement accusations. This bill will give the companies from developing countries more freedom and flexibility to challenge the relative US patent for doing business in US and make it less costly to infringe."