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Patent 'Reform' in US Congress Still Under Attack by Patent Lawyers and Corporate Lobbyists

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Summary: The latest instances of assault on changes to the US patent system, demonstrated through an elaborative survey of the media (two days' worth)

THE futility of a so-called 'reform' in the US patent system and our dismissive attitude towards it is due to corporations-led watering down of bills. What's typically left in bills is nothing of substance, or too little of substance, just enough for the corporate media to state that the system has been changed and is thus 'fixed'.

"Corporations and the millionaires (or billionaires) who own them are totally dominating political platforms."Blake A. Ilstrup, who describes himself as "general counsel and senior vice president of business development at Kineta," does not want the current patent regime to change. "Congress must keep trolls away from medical patents," heralds another headline from someone working in Kineta's field (or very similar). It sure looks like there's a battle between lawyers and everyone else. Remember that many lobbyists are themselves lawyers. AmeriKat, a strong proponent of more patents in the US (and a proud proponent of software patents, so we assume that it's a patent lawyer from the US), happily speaks of "US patent litigation boom" (more business for lawyers), not to our surprise at all. Sen. Gerald Ortiz Y Pino's piece about "frivolous patent suits" continues to circulate while former Rep. Ron Klink (D-Pa.) pretends that this out-of-control patent system is good for workers (he published this in a site where lobbyists are abundant). This former Representative sure seems to be fronting for corporations here, not workers. There is also a lot of pro-patents propaganda (more lawsuits wanted) from patent lawyers who celebrate this horrible patents-maximising system, hoping that it stays in tact [1, 2, 3, 4]. With an arrogant grin in the latter two examples, patent lawyers actively work to derail patent reform. They are succeeding so far because, as the first of these highlights right in the headline, "House vote on Innovation Act could be delayed until after August recess" (delay works well for them).

Where is opposition to software patents in the media? We're massively outnumbered now by patent lawyers. The corporate media is currently reposting a biased article from Bloomberg (booster of patents and so-called 'IP' for a number of years), showing us all that no chance of a 'reform' -- however small -- is being tolerated by corporations. Corporations and the millionaires (or billionaires) who own them are totally dominating political platforms.

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