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November 17, 2011

Lube Job

Money oils the machinary of politics, and so it should come as no surprise that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent lobbying the corrupt politicians on Capitol Hill to pass the "America Invents Act," the greatest invention of which is the claim that there was any improvement to existing law. There wasn't. The law still allows Americans to patent inventions first created overseas, while disadvantaging small entity inventors. The First Street Research Group has done a remarkable job documenting the swirling cesspool more diplomatically known as U.S. democracy in action, as it pertains to the patent act. Check it out.

Posted by Patent Hawk at November 17, 2011 10:33 PM | The Patent System