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Patent law overhaul gets House panel OK (news.com.com)
3 points by gibsonf1 on July 19, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



It still sounds like the biggest corporations are making the rules. These reforms do almost nothing for smaller companies and individual inventors, and nothing to address the real harm that patents have done to the web, and the free and Open Source software world.

We need somewhat higher standards of novelty and non-obviousness, particularly on "business method" patents (if business method patents should even continue to exist).


this is actually a better article than the one I submitted




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