Perspective
Jun. 20, 2012
America Invents Act: progress or regress?
If the AIA is undoubtedly innovative, the question is whether it is innovative in a good way. By Marc E. Hankin of Hankin Patent Law
"We need legislation to bring us up to date, and this act will promote innovation, it will create new businesses and, as a result, new jobs. This is bipartisan legislation that will allow inventors to secure their patents more quickly and to have better success commercializing them."
A short time has passed since Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont said those words before Congress in March 2011. What became the "Leahy-Smith Am...
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