[Discuss] The America Invents Act

Hsuan-Yeh Chang hsuanyeh at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 27 13:22:00 EDT 2011


I believe the fear is mostly groundless.  The AIA is an effort to harmonize US patent law with the rest of the world.  So far, US software patents have been the most dangerous among software patents among the world...  So, no fear.



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From: Tom Metro <tmetro-blu at vl.com>
To: L-blu <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:44 PM
Subject: [Discuss] The America Invents Act

Rich Braun wrote:
> The America Invents Act of 16-Sep-2011 is about to make things a
> whole lot worse for future open-source dev, I fear.

I haven't read the details of the act. Can you elaborate on that?

-Tom

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