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Patent law overhaul gets House panel OK
- chaostheory 19y agothis is actually a better article than the one I submitted
- SwellJoe 19y agoIt still sounds like the biggest corporations are making the rules. These reforms do almost nothing for smaller companies and individual inventors, and nothing to address the real harm that patents have done to the web, and the free and Open Source software world. We need somewhat higher standards of novelty and non-obviousness, particularly on "business method" patents (if business method patents should even continue to exist).