Re: [Patents] US patent reform strategy inaugurated by myths & lies

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

> > Because many American inventors also seek patent protection in other
> > countries, these international pendency tribulations directly injure
> > the ability of American inventors to get prompt overseas protection
> > for their intellectual property. Fully 50 percent of all
> > U.S. exports depend upon intellectual property protection.
>
>
> a useful reminder for those who do not believe that patentability is
> actually being pushed by the USA for their own benefit, not caring
> whether it is globally good or not.

Rogan doesn't even seem to care whether it's nationally good or not.

Even if the US gov't stumbles into adopting the PTO's policy as its own,
that may not be a result of any deliberation of national interest.  As we
heard Mr. Hughes explain in Paris: the EU is promoting its database
directive all over the world in a similar way, and again "self-replication
of political organisms" and vanity are perhaps more important causes than
a European interest.

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