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  1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 21:10:04 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Frontier Foundation

    This dangerous proposal in Congress would throw out one of our most important defenses against patent trolls. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-don-t-need-more-bad-patents-8941b5c6-5bb1-4d93-9ca1-a2da87c4458e

    In conversation Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 21:10:04 UTC from mastodon.social permalink

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    1. Tell Congress: We Don’t Need More Bad Patents
      Right now, Senators are working to remove key legal protections that protect people from patent trolls and other abusers of the patent system. Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have published a draft bill that will undermine protections of Section 101 of the U.S. Patent Act. Section 101 puts important limits on what can be patented. For instance, it bans patents on abstract ideas, natural phenomena, and laws of nature. Our patent laws are supposed to keep those basic ideas unpatented—they are the building blocks of scientific progress, available to all.
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.

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