Now Corporations & Congress ATTACK Inventor's Rights !!!

Just when you think there's nothing left for Congress & Corporations to steal, Here They Come Again, In For The Kill ! As usual, after Republicans reject the Senate's proposal for patent reform; ( which has served and facilitated the greatest industrial expansion in history and on earth ), the Senate says: "o.k., tell us what you want for Big Corporate and we'll give it to them. Don't worry about the public, they don't understand the issue anyway. They won't be looking. Just make sure you pay me on the way out."

"The Senate will take up the House's version of a bipartisan patent reform bill immediately after its summer recess".

"The bill has drawn opposition from small inventors, and some provisions are controversial, such as one that would make it easier to challenge business method patents. But the legislation has wide-ranging support from industry, both parties, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the White House."

When industry, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Republicans are sponsoring, championing, and promoting an issue, can there be any doubt that they're about to steal someone's lunch money? After this farcical debt crisis / ceiling debacle, can we really be surprised that the President and Congress are supporting it too? There must be a lot of blood money floating in the waters. What this proposed bill does is to help Big Corporate steal from independent inventors and innovators with impunity. Since it is individuals which create most innovations and new products, this will ultimately stifle job creation instead of growing it. Patent experts have objected and protested what they see as stifling technology development, decreasing job growth, suppressing economic recovery, and saddling us with a international "handicap" which we previously did not have. If our patent system helped grow us into the most powerful nation on the earth, how can it be so bad; except to would be robber barons. It behooves all who is interested in stopping Big Corporate's DEATH MARCH on the PEOPLE of the United States to read the numerous articles linked on Mr. Laudner's page:

"There are many things wrong with our patent system, and many ways in which it might be improved, but this bill does not materially improve it, and would make it much harder for start-ups to obtain and enforce patents. Unlike the Senate bill passed in March, the bill passed by the House (HR1249) in June does not fix the problem of the patent offices's fees being diverted to help cover our federal deficit. The change to First-to-file would be a benefit to those who would like to steal others ideas, and consequently will force entrepreneurs in the USA to have to follow the same advice that exists in Europe: file for your patents BEFORE talking with investors, potential customers or even potential co-founders. This will stifle the open innovation model that has flourished in America. Other changes will make it easier to accidentally lose the ability to obtain a patent (e.g. if you offer your invention for sale or publicly use it), will more easily enable an infringer to defend themselves by showing such actions prior to the plaintiff's application, and will enable infringers to postpone the issuance of other's patents by filing expensive post-grant review procedures...which can also cost a company more than they can afford. The proponents have sold this bill based on superficial talking points that sound plausible, but are deceptions. Every well-known US inventor opposes this, as does Judge Paul Michel, the US's #1 patent judge who resigned early from his lifetime appointment in order to speak out against this."

http://www.lauderpartners.com/PatentReform/