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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:06:04 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

The public must have a meaningful right to challenge patents. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/congress-must-stop-pushing-bills-will-benefit-patent-trolls
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1. Congress Must Stop Pushing Bills That Will Benefit Patent Trolls
  
  from Joe Mullin
  
  The U.S. Senate is moving forward with two bills that would enrich patent trolls, patent system insiders, and a few large companies that rely on flimsy patents, at the expense of everyone else. One bill, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) would bring back some of the worst software...
- Paul Tourville (taobear@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 18:09:31 JST Paul Tourville
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  @eff I think what that headline /means/ to say is, "Congress must stop lobbying, and must explicitly invalidated the SCOTUS "'Citizens United' ruling." The USPTO is an Executive Branch entity. The President is at liberty to set its agenda. Apparently the $(PRESIDENT} Administration doesn't see that knife-and-fork patents stifle innovation and necessitate needless expenditure across the economy.
  
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