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Does anybody thing this is a good reform? My understanding that this is a bill promoted by big law firms to make more money and to protect financial industry a
by cHalgan 15y ago
Does anybody thing this is a good reform?
My understanding that this is a bill promoted by big law firms to make more money and to protect financial industry against patent trolls. Also, 'first-inventor-to-file' is something which big companies were pushing anyway.
We are doomed...
- marcamillion 15y agoWell...just to be play devil's advocate here for a sec...I don't know if that's the case, but just based on the vote it seems a bit fishy to me. 89-9 means many Republicans were on-board. The stereotype for the 'typical' Republican positions are torte reform and less interference with business process. So just by that reasoning alone, if this was Big Law Firm (only) friendly, it seems to me that so many republicans wouldn't have supported it. I am just putting forth a theory, as I was not party to the negotiations so I don't know for sure.
- cHalgan 15y agoYou really think that republicans and democrats are two different parties? (sorry for being sarcastic... I'm just frustrated with politics in US... It seems so corrupted beyond belief)
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoRegression to the mean at work, regardless of corruption.
- Roboprog 15y agoExactly. There is "gays & abortion theater" (financial impact: $0.00), but otherwise, multi-national corps get what they want. Citizens of this nation seem to no longer run their own country very much.
- nickpinkston 15y agoYou and me both cHalgan... I figure that this law won't do much to the status quo - or else how could they pass it? Reminds me of: "If voting worked, it'd be illegal."
- fragsworth 15y agoMost people are unaware what exactly causes problems in the patent system; all they know is there might be something wrong with it. And here is a bill that they claim will "reform" it. The details, and effects of those details, are lost to the general public. It is all too likely that this bill will benefit patent trolls and large corporations at the expense of everyone else, but there is no way the public will attribute these effects (which will happen years later) to the politicians who voted on this bill. It's really sad.
- Jgrubb 15y agoThe mere fact that Democrats and Republicans seemed to agree that this is a good bill says to me that it's probably a shitty bill. Pardon my French.