“Patent reform” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Yesterday, in his speech at a next-generation car battery factory in MI, President Obama asked people to support passage of patent reforms necessary to enable innovation. My first instinct was to cheer this seemingly out-of-the-blue revelation, assuming that the administration had been paying attention and was advocating the kind of patent reform we actually need to ensure unfettered innovation.
I was wrong.
What Obama actually meant was that we should support passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. This joke of a reform has already passed the House and is on to the Senate.
Others have summarized the problems with this bill better than I can, so I’ll leave you with these:
- Litigation & Trial analysis
- Lauder Partners analysis
Please contact your Senators and tell them that you do not support this regressive “reform”.
