For of course we have the entire patent system of the United States of America telling us that the two are absolutely not the same thing.
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This would help to measure the quality of the patent system itself, and offer some way of evaluating whether it is working to promote innovation, or to impede it.
Moreover, the law does little to address the more basic problem of a patent system that has grown in expense for all kinds of companies that want to protect their ideas.
The purpose of our patent system is to allow the inventor, for a fixed period of time, to reap the fruits of his labor.
Adam Mossoff, Professor at George Mason University School of Law and an invited panelist at the December 10 FTC-DOJ workshop, on behalf of the Innovation Alliance, which represents innovators, patent owners and stakeholders from a diverse range of industries that believe in the critical importance of maintaining a strong patent system that supports innovative enterprises of all sizes.
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Having a better understanding of the patent system and its everyday pitfalls will help both policymakers and the public realize how some of these policies are limiting productivity and consumer choice, and increasing liability risks for tech companies here and overseas.
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We found a defender of the patent system in the leading intellectual property lawyer Guy Burkill QC, who has acted for some of the giants of the mobile phone industry.
And we do need to recall what the purpose of a patent system is.
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However, AIA has failed to resolve the serious problems of the patent system that harm the tech industry.
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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.
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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Growing militancy by technology companies, including those who are themselves beneficiaries of the patent system, may lead Washington to act.
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"Design patents used to be in the backwaters of the patent system, " said Christopher Carani, a design-law expert and lawyer in Chicago.
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All of the above is true: yet it ignores the reason Lucentis exists: the patent system and the costs of getting a drug approved.
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Overall, according to the European Commission, the lack of a unified patent system is one reason why Europe's small and medium-sized technology firms fail to grow as quickly as those in America, Asia and elsewhere.
There is no small irony that Congress is trying to take an action that is so problematic on so many grounds even as the Supreme Court has just ruled overwhelmingly in favor of our present patent system and the rights it upholds.
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Yet today, the climate of innovation that has advanced technology at such a rapid pace, is being stymied by a patent system ill-adapted to the realities of modern information technology.
Europe's patent system is also in a mess in another regard: the quilt of national patent offices and languages means that the cost of obtaining a patent for the entire European Union is too high, a burden in particular on smaller firms and individual inventors.
The outcome will have important ramifications for the American patent system and the future of inventiveness.
And these devices could, most probably, operate in an almost identical fashion with far fewer patents, but the current patent system rewards this sort of IP loading.
On December 10, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) held the first of a series of workshops on the patent system and innovation.
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But patent attorney Gene Quinn outright accuses me of lying in his response to my recent piece on how the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals wrecked the patent system.
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In part to bring the United States into closer alignment with the rest of the world, the AIA eliminates the first-to-invent system for U.S. patent applications with an effective filing date of March 16, 2013 or later.
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The patent system has received a lot of attention recently, and not the good kind.
As detailed here, bills to overhaul patent system have made it out of House and Senate Judiciary committees.
One component of a well-functioning patent system is clarity around what entity is the real party in interest for a particular patent.
But then our busted patent system intervened in the form of a threatening phone call from the CEO of Nuance Communications (NUAN), a big voice recognition firm.
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The patent system - a vital part of our innovation infrastructure, and the only way that inventors can be certain that their ideas can be protected from those who who would steal them.
The Graedons noted that while the active ingredient of the drug goes off patent, the pharmaceutical chemistry behind the extended delivery system may still be the intellectual property of the brand-name manufacturer.
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