Legal Roundtable on Strategic Implications of AIA

The American Bar Association Section of Litigation and Navigant will be holding a IP legal roundtable on the "Strategic Implications of the Patent Reform Act of 2011" on December 1, 2011 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at Navigant's offices in Chicago, IL.  The roundtable will be moderated by Benjamin Bradford of Jenner & Block LLP.  There is no registration fee for the roundtable, but those interested in registering for the roundtable can do so here.  A program discussion outline for the roundtable can be downloaded here.  Roundtables will also be held in Atlanta (on December 1), Dallas (12/8), Las Vegas (12/7), Memphis (12/7), Minneapolis (12/7), Nashville (12/7), Philadelphia (12/8), and Washington, DC (11/29).  Additional information regarding other roundtable locations can be found here.

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"patent reform"

“This is not a patent reform bill” Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) complained, despite other democrats praising the overhaul. “This is a big corporation patent giveaway that tramples on the right of small inventors.”

Senator Cantwell is right. Just because they call it “reform” doesn’t mean it is. The agents of banks, huge multinationals, and China are at it again trying to brain wash and bankrupt America.

They should have called the bill the America STOPS Inventing Act or ASIA, because that’s where it is sending all our jobs.

The patent bill is nothing less than another monumental federal giveaway for banks, huge multinationals, and China and an off shoring job killing nightmare for America. Even the leading patent expert in China has stated the bill will help them steal our inventions. Who are the supporters of this bill working for??

Patent reform is a fraud on America. This bill will not do what they claim it will. What it will do is help large multinational corporations maintain their monopolies by robbing and killing their small entity and startup competitors (so it will do exactly what the large multinationals paid for) and with them the jobs they would have created. The bill will make it harder and more expensive for small firms to get and enforce their patents. Without patents we cant get funded. Yet small entities create the lion's share of new jobs. According to recent studies by the Kauffman Foundation and economists at the U.S. Census Bureau, “startups aren’t everything when it comes to job growth. They’re the only thing.” This bill is a wholesale slaughter of US jobs. Those wishing to help fight this bill should contact us as below.

Small entities and inventors have been given far too little voice on this bill when one considers that they rely far more heavily on the patent system than do large firms who can control their markets by their size alone. The smaller the firm, the more they rely on patents -especially startups and individual inventors. Congress tinkering with patent law while gagging inventors is like a surgeon operating before examining the patient.

Those wishing to help fight big business giveaways should contact us as below and join the fight as we are building a network of inventors and other stakeholders to lobby Congress to restore property rights for all patent owners -large and small.

Please see http://truereform.piausa.org/default.html for a different/opposing view on patent reform.
http://docs.piausa.org/