The patent system has received a lot of attention recently, and not the good kind.
The patent system exists to encourage inventors to share their works with the public.
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Just days earlier, the Bush Administration was emphasizing its desire to safeguard the patent system.
It is directly tied to a patent system specifically geared to creative and business minded inventors.
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Suddenly, there is a downside to the U.S. patent system, the fuel for worldwide drug research.
Bayer said the patent panel's order weakens the international patent system and endangers pharmaceutical research.
We reformed our patent system to make it easier for innovative ideas to come to market.
There is other evidence from Europe that their patent system is not working for their start-ups.
The outcome will have important ramifications for the American patent system and the future of inventiveness.
And we do need to recall what the purpose of a patent system is.
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The outcome has huge implications for AstraZeneca, the generic industry and, potentially, the entire drug-patent system.
While the patent system is enshrined in the Constitution, Congress has the job of specifying the rules.
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The venerable patent system in the United States is in danger of succumbing to the same fate.
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It has scrupulously avoided abusing the broken patent system as Microsoft and Apple have done.
The order "weakens the international patent system and endangers pharmaceutical research, " the company said in a statement.
However, AIA has failed to resolve the serious problems of the patent system that harm the tech industry.
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At the very least this flags up that we rather need to change how the patent system works.
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Get this covered first, and then you can worry about the patent system.
Patently Wrong This year Congress may pass a particularly destructive piece of legislation threatening our extraordinarily successful patent system.
As detailed here, bills to overhaul patent system have made it out of House and Senate Judiciary committees.
Yet some people are calling for substantial changes to the U.S. patent system.
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But thanks to our over-taxed patent system, those tests are not applied rigorously.
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The verdict raises questions anew about how well the U.S. patent system works.
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There's a brawl brewing as Congress works up the most sweeping overhaul of the patent system in half a century.
We've heard it shouted from the mountaintops more times than we'd care to mention: the patent system is fundamentally broken.
People are fine with it, because if companies instead use the patent system to shut out other start-ups, less innovation happens.
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Every programmer who has even a passing familiarity with the patent system knows that vague and trivial patents are extremely common.
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Our patent system and IP laws badly need reform, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the American healthcare system.
Nor is there yet any reform of the patent system, which imposes long delays on innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs seeking approvals.
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With that in mind, here is my first guess at what knobs we might use to tune up the patent system.
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