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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Aug. 29, 2007

Patently Unfair

Forum Column - By Dennis Fernandez, Jeff Hunt and Raymond Ibon - If Microsoft and a handful of other major corporations get their way, the next round of U.S. patent reform may prove crippling to fledgling inventors.

FORUM COLUMN

By Dennis Fernandez, Jeff Hunt and Raymond Ibon

      A group of large U.S. computer technology and financial services companies, led by Microsoft and calling themselves the "Coalition for Patent Fairness," is making unprecedented efforts to "reform" the established U.S. patent system and fix perceived problems.
      On Feb. 1, the coalition sent a letter to Congress requesting enactme...

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