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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:12:01 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

The PERA and PREVAIL patent bills were pulled at the last minute today, without getting a committee vote. Senators are right to have concerns with these deeply flawed bills. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/tell-congress-stop-these-last-minute-bills-help-patent-trolls
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1. Tell Congress To Stop These Last-Minute Bills That Help Patent Trolls
  
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  This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to use its limited time in the lame-duck session to vote on a bill that would make the patent system even worse. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (S. 2140), or PERA, would undo vital limits on computer technology patents that the Supreme Court...
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:12:13 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation
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  These bills were giveaways to patent trolls. We hope to engage with the next Congress on real patent fixes—changes that will create a more fair system for small companies and everyday users of tech.
  
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- Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:12:25 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation
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  Thanks to all those who spoke out! If you haven't told Congress your opinion on these terrible bills, you can still do so using our action center. Help us move the next Congress in a different direction. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-can-t-afford-more-bad-patents
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    Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents
    
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    Congress is pushing two bills that would bring back some of the worst patents and empower patent trolls. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, would throw out crucial rules that ban patents on many abstract ideas. Courts will be ordered to approve patents on things like ordering food on a mobile phone or doing basic financial functions online. If PERA Passes, the floodgates will open for these vague software patents that will be used to sue small companies and individuals. This bill even allows for a type of patent on human genes that the Supreme Court rightly disallowed in 2013. A second bill, the PREVAIL Act, S. 2220, would sharply limit the public’s right to challenge patents that never should have been granted in the first place.
- LadyS1900 (ladys1900@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 06:53:48 JST LadyS1900
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  @eff we will know the corruption; as we see the corrupters!
  
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