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Fallout from the recently enacted and ironically titled "America Invents Act": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_invent http://en.wikiped

• Pxtl 13y ago
  The global move to "first to file" seems basically an admission that the patent system is completely ideologically bankrupt and is nothing more than regulatory capture for cutting-edge industries and a jobs program for lawyers. The paper matters more than the invention. What a world.
  • wissler 13y ago
    Of course it is completely ideologically bankrupt, but so is virtually everything else about our political and cultural institutions. Not a whole lot has changed on this front since Galileo was thrown into prison, at least not in terms of ideological fundamentals.
• drderidder 13y ago
  Yeah, I keep wondering why I didn't see more press blasting the "America Invents Act" as a fake reform that made things even worse.
  • nickff 13y ago
    Few people understand or take an interest in patent law, and the press is no better than the populace.