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Fed Economists Urge Radical Policy To Ditch Key Obama Reform, Patents

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 02.06.2013 | Politics
Read More: Big Pharma, Ip, Economy, Federal Reserve, Jobs, Software Patents, Innovation, Obama, Drug Patents, Business, Barack Obama, Competition, Video, David K. Levine, Patent System, America Invents Act, Michele Boldrin, Patent Reform, Patents, Politics News

Two economists at the St. Louis Federal Reserve published a paper arguing to abolish the American patent system, saying there's "no evidence" patents ...

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Patents for Humanity

David J. Kappos | Posted 12.01.2012 | Impact
Read More: Intellectual Property, America Invents Act, Inventions, Innovation, Impactx, Patents for Humanity, Patents, Impact News
David J. Kappos

To be sure, significant challenges remain. There is no one-shot (or one-click) panacea to the world's patent issues. But what is frequently lost in the public discussion is that tremendous positive changes are already underway.

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Where Are All the Jobs Patent Reform Promised?

Daniel B. Ravicher | Posted 08.11.2012 | Small Business
Read More: America Invents Act, Barack Obama, Patents, Patent Law, Job Creation, Small Business News
Daniel B. Ravicher

Last September, our esteemed leaders in Washington passed a law reforming America's patent system called the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. At the time, the promise from every politician in support of the Act was that it would create jobs.

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Speeding Up the Patent Process

Rep. Steny Hoyer | Posted 11.16.2011 | Politics
Read More: America Invents Act, America Invents Act Obama, Patent Reform Obama, Obama Patent Reform, Patent Reform Act, Patent Reform, Politics News
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 | Politics
Read More: Inventors, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, President Barack Obama, Patent Reform Act, America Invents Act, Inventions, Barack Obama 2012, Barack Obama, Patent Law, Patents, Patent Reform, Politics News

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 | Politics
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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 | Business
Read More: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Judiciary Committee, John Boehner, Patents, America Invents Act, Innovation, Economic Recovery, David Kappos, Economy, Small Business America, Business News
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 | Business
Read More: Inventions, Patents, Small Business, America Invents Act, Patrick Leahy, R&D, Invention, Business News
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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