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Intellectual Property

Apr. 9, 2009

Innovation Could Be The First Casualty Of Patent Reform

Mircea Achiriloaie, an attorney with the Thousand Oaks-based plant biotech company Ceres Inc., warns that proposed reforms to the patent law currently brewing in Congress could spell the end of innovation.

By Mircea Achiriloaie

High-tech lobbying groups want us to believe that weaker patent protection would be good for everybody. It would not. It would be good for high-tech industry giants. For start-up companies, green tech, biotech, clean tech, renewable energy or any innovative industry with long inherent product development timelines, weaker patent protection would be disastrous. These sectors of the economy are well-represented in California and often rely heavily on...

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