Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System

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Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Libre Culture · 1 month ago

Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to ma…

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