Congress fiddles while patents burn us

American politicos both Republican and Democrat agreed that something had to be done about patents, and the costly, innovation-choking mess they were making of American success. The new America Invents Act represents the most sweeping changes to the US’ law in decades, but the bill is not expected to end the courtroom wrangling between technology giants. Experts rated it as pretty good tinkering, but not game-changing.

“My feeling is that it won’t change the dynamics much of the ongoing patent wars,” said Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates. “The problem is with patents in general, in that there’s way too much patenting and people patent any old thing including how to toast bread.”

Ed Black, president and chief executive of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), said the bill, the America Invents Act, “doesn’t effectively address the real serious problems of our patent system.

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