PATENT REFORM - CONGRESS JOINS COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE AGAINST AMERICAN INVENTORS

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          “The Patent Act of 2015 S.1137, and the Innovation Act H.R. 9, as written, are failures not only in legislation, but in democracy.”

Congress, fleeing the (fabricated) threat of death-dealing "trolls," a well-funded media propaganda campaign, proposes to deal with inventors and small business pursuing patent infringement against market-controlling corporations (who really wrote these bills?) in the manner resembling the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries: dunk the accused inventor in the cold river of abusive, adverse, and cynical legislation meant to defeat him. If he drowns he will be considered innocent, but if he floats, declare witchcraft to be involved, which in modern times may be considered anything these corporations find disturbing. For the unfortunate few who survive this first ordeal, our Congress, armed with this new proof of the inventor's guilt under the heavens, takes another lesson from history: In Roman times, traitors were sewn in a leather bag with wild animals and thrown into the river (presumably now the Potomac), or now, equivalently, empowering Federal Court judges to favor defendants.

Already, it is virtually impossible to enforce patents against corporations. If the inventor's patents survive the readily available challenge of an interpartes reviews, Federal judges still hold the power to invalidate the patents and life's work of the inventor. (Some believe in violation of Seventh Amendment property rights). The present legislation destroys all hope of an inventor ever enforcing his patents, eviscerating the patent system itself for inventors and small business, and subverting, through a cynical use of the law, the intention of the founding fathers in creating protection for the American inventor through that patent system.

It is not necessary to understand the law to understand the hidden purpose of this legislation. A reading of any of the well drawn articles below can shed light on the truth of so-called "patent reform." Let every member of Congress supporting these bills be marked by their transparent intent to subvert the patent system and the rights of inventors, the real engine of innovation in America.

ARTICLES:

THE ANTI-INNOVATION ACT OF 2015

SECURING PATENT HEGEMONY OVER PATENT HOLDERS

INNOVATION ACT MAKES PATENTS HARDER TO ENFORCE, EASIER TO INFRINGE

WE'VE BEEN GOOGLED - H.R. 9, THE INNOVATION ACT

SECURING CORPORATE HEGEMONY OVER PATENT HOLDERS


SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL:

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/238973-hr-9-crushes-innovation-killing-the-american-dream

LEGAL EXPLICATION:

https://www.orrick.com/Events-and-Publications/Pages/congress-continues-to-promote-patent-reform-efforts.aspx

TAKE ACTION OR LOSE YOUR RIGHTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:

"Helping pro-reform advocates were the late pickups of swing votes in Republican Sens. Jeff Sessions, Thom Tillis, and David Perdue as well as Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Al Franken, Richard Blumenthal, and Sheldon Whitehouse."

SENATE BILL S.1137

SENATE BILL S. 1137 CO-SPONSORS


HOUSE BILL H.R. 9

HOUSE BILL H.R. 9 CO-SPONSORS

COMMITTEES:

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS

SENATE COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS

For a list of Congressman and Senates who have voted for this legislation, go to:

https://www.govtrack.us/