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US Patent Reform Bills And Jobs: Critical Timing, Critical Differences

By Intellectual Property Watch

The United States patent reform bills offered up Tuesday fall well short of what is needed to protect innovation and intellectual property rights, say myriad small tech companies, large-cap manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms and inventors. In fact, they say, it even threatens jobs at a time when the economy is in desperate need of them. But proponents argue that it is precisely the type of measure needed to promote jobs, reduce lawsuits and poor patent quality that put a drag on innovation and the economy.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on March 04, 2009 (boomark / email).