[Infowarrior] - Dysfunctional patent reform in Congress

[Richard Forno]

Congress So Dysfunctional, It Can't Even Fix The Errors It ADMITS It Made In Patent Reform
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130102/12173821549/congress-so-dysfunctional-it-cant-even-fix-errors-it-admits-it-made-patent-reform.shtml

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Let's recap, because this is quite incredible:

	• Congress spends seven years debating patent reform.
	• It finally approves patent reform in late 2011, and despite seven years of debate, had a ton of clear errors in the drafting of the bill.
	• The official sponsors of the bill flat out admit that there's a major error in a part of the bill that they did not intend to be in there.
	• A year plus later, Congress finally introduces a bill to "fix problems" in the original bill.
	• This "technical corrections" bill does not fix the one major problem that all admit was a flat out mistake in the original bill.

And people wonder why Congress' approval rating is so low.



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