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Congress and Innovation : Two Views on Patents Collide in Pending Patent Legislation

By Andis Kaulins

Via the open Law@Stanford Newsletter of February, 2008, we were alerted to Two Views of Innovation, Colliding in Washington by John Markoff at the New York Times, which quotes Stanford Law Prof Mark Lemley on pending Congressional patent legislation as follows:

"?I have to say I?m frankly astonished that apportionment has been this controversial,? said Mark A. Lemley, an intellectual-property scholar at Stanford who has testified in support of the legislation. ?I can?t think of a straight-faced argument that you as a patent owner are entitled to more than your invention has contributed to a product.?"

Markoff's article is well worth a read to get a feeling for the issues involved in today's patent world.

Full post as published by LawPundit on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).