{"id":365442,"date":"2010-02-25T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100225\/1557268316.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-25T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T01:33:00","slug":"its-back-patent-reform-deal-expected-shortly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365442","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Back: Patent Reform Deal Expected Shortly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to happen every year around this time.  Senators on the Judiciary Committee announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/techdailydose.nationaljournal.com\/2010\/02\/leahy-patent-deal-is-close.php\" >they&#8217;ve got a plan for patent reform<\/a>.  We&#8217;ve been hearing the same thing for about half a decade now, and while legislation gets introduced, it never actually goes anywhere.  I&#8217;ll be curious to see what they&#8217;ve got this year, but since they claim they&#8217;ve come &#8220;close to a compromise,&#8221; my guess is that, like previous patent reform bills, there will be a lot of hype, and it probably won&#8217;t do all that much to get at the real problems with the patent system.  It may fix some things around the edges, but like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090303\/1830073975.shtml\">last year&#8217;s bill<\/a> there will be a lot of bad things in the bill as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100225\/1557268316.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100225\/1557268316.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100225\/1557268316&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=7ba56109c5c398ea22038c3e24a6b4bc&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=7ba56109c5c398ea22038c3e24a6b4bc&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Uny9RvjQPhc:vrQdntRHNdA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=Uny9RvjQPhc:vrQdntRHNdA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Uny9RvjQPhc:vrQdntRHNdA:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/Uny9RvjQPhc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to happen every year around this time. Senators on the Judiciary Committee announce that they&#8217;ve got a plan for patent reform. We&#8217;ve been hearing the same thing for about half a decade now, and while legislation gets introduced, it never actually goes anywhere. I&#8217;ll be curious to see what they&#8217;ve got this year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}