{"id":192364,"date":"2009-04-07T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/07\/senate-judiciary-committee-approves-patent-update\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T04:14:00","slug":"senate-judiciary-committee-approves-patent-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/07\/senate-judiciary-committee-approves-patent-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Patent Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks to me like the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-10210824-38.html?tag=nl.e703\">Patent Reform Act of 2009<\/a>, is an improvement, the patent troll crowd are generally negative on it, and Senator Feingold&#8217;s statement in opposition suggests that it weakens patents too much, which is a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">good<\/span> thing.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is what happens in conference.<\/p>\n<p>In my dream scenario, the patenting of software algorithms, tax deductions, business plans, genes, and species would be invalidated, and a litigant could file a suit against a patent as a plaintiff without having to infringe, as is done with civil rights suits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks to me like the Patent Reform Act of 2009, is an improvement, the patent troll crowd are generally negative on it, and Senator Feingold&#8217;s statement in opposition suggests that it weakens patents too much, which is a good thing. The real question is what happens in conference. In my dream scenario, the patenting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1109,1020,1191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-ip","category-legislation","category-patent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}