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General Patent Corporation
General Patent Corporation Calls New Patent Reform Bill Harmful to Inventors and Entrepreneurs
May 2nd, 2009
General Patent Corporation chairman and CEO Alexander Poltorak, writing in the popular syndicated “Washington Watch” column circulated throughout the country, strongly criticized the proposed Patent Reform Act of 2009, and said that “recycling a piece of failed legislation is not the best way to protect American inventors and spur innovation.” Calling the proposed new bill “a warmed-over version of a proposed policy package that didn’t pass the first time it was introduced in 2007,” Dr. Poltorak said “the apportionment of damages and other changes would weaken patents and make it easier for offshore copycats to bring pirated goods into the U.S. This,” he continued,...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-05-02)
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