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Study for US Congress outlines options against patent trolls (The H)

Study for US Congress outlines options against patent trolls (The H)

Posted Sep 7, 2012 22:16 UTC (Fri) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Study for US Congress outlines options against patent trolls (The H) by karim
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Of course, this would be in addition to other restrictions on patent lifetime.


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Study for US Congress outlines options against patent trolls (The H)

Posted Sep 8, 2012 1:34 UTC (Sat) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]

I don't think we can get rid of software patents that easily. But, this type of measure might just be easily defendable by way of saying that it's already applied by the PTO to trademarks.

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