America Invents Act

Speeding Up the Patent Process

Rep. Steny Hoyer | Posted 11.16.2011

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Rep. Steny Hoyer

At this moment, more than 700,000 patents are caught in the backlog. Could one of those 700,000 new ideas be the next iPhone, the next breakthrough drug, the key to the next great American industry? We'll have to wait a long time to find out.

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Obama Signs Major Patent Reform Law

AP | Posted 11.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will sign the America Invents Act on Friday, the first significant change in patent law since 1952. The presiden...

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Current Patent Bill Helps Global Elite, Not the Little "Guy"

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher | Posted 07.25.2011

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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher

In the name of harmonizing our laws with other countries, Congress is about to dramatically diminish the patent protections offered to American innovators over the history of our Republic.

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Shortchanging Our Inventors Is Slowing Our Economic Recovery

Sen. Chris Coons | Posted 07.05.2011

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Sen. Chris Coons

Congress' delay in ending patent-fee diversion is costing America jobs at a time when we desperately need to be getting more Americans back to work. We need to fight for the power of good ideas.

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Patently Absurd or: How to Go From the World's Best Patent System to Worse-Than-Most in a Single Step

Gary Lauder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gary Lauder

Congress is responding to the companies who can afford to lobby and not bothering to seek the opinions of entrepreneurial inventors -- for whom the patent system was created over 200 years ago by a single sentence in the Constitution.

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