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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In the past one could register one’s
invention defensively (like the even older disclosure patents) which gave
them the right to continue to use their invention even if someone else actually
takes it through the patent process. I don’t think the new law
changes that, does it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Jan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org
[mailto:stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Crispin Pemberton-Pigott<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 09, 2011
7:26 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Stoves<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Stoves] New US Patent
law change</span></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h4 style='line-height:22.5pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;letter-spacing:
-.6pt'>Dear Friends<o:p></o:p></span></font></h4>
<h4 style='line-height:22.5pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;letter-spacing:
-.6pt'>This is from Engadget.<o:p></o:p></span></font></h4>
<h4 style='line-height:22.5pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;letter-spacing:
-.6pt'><a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/us-senate-passes-patent-system-reform-bill-obama-expected-to-si/">http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/us-senate-passes-patent-system-reform-bill-obama-expected-to-si/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></h4>
<h4 style='line-height:22.5pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;letter-spacing:
-.6pt'>The comments below seem to have missed or completely misunderstood the
introduction of third party rights. It allows uninvolved parties to have a
patent declared invalid (should not have been granted in the first place). For
stoves, this would usually mean showing that the invention was not new because
of ‘prior art’ (someone already did it). The strange thing is that
the original inventor is not protected – whoever gets to the patent
office first gets the patent, not the first inventor. This is harmful to people
who invent something and do not bring it to the patenting stage (which requires
that you publicly reveal in detail how it works).<o:p></o:p></span></font></h4>
<h4 style='line-height:22.5pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;letter-spacing:
-.6pt'>An advantage of this is that someone who invents a better gasifier air
injection hole shape, for example, takes more risk by <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>not</span></i> patenting it right away, which starts
the 20 year clock ticking sooner. A good example of deliberate delaying is Big
pharma which runs the full patent time on some or other painkiller then brings
out a safer, more effective (plain better) replacement with fewer side effects
that was discovered 18 years previously and kept secret. If someone else
discovers it on their own, they can patent it now, without having to deal
with/pay/’accommodate’ those who also discovered it and kept it off
the market.<o:p></o:p></span></font></h4>
<h4 style='line-height:22.5pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;letter-spacing:
-.6pt'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></h4>
<h4 style='line-height:22.5pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;letter-spacing:
-.6pt'>Crispin <o:p></o:p></span></font></h4>
<h4 style='line-height:22.5pt'><font size=6 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;letter-spacing:
-.6pt'>US Senate passes patent system reform bill, Obama expected to sign into
law<o:p></o:p></span></font></h4>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=caption6><i><font size=2 color="#111111"
face=Georgia><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt'>By <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/editor/amar-toor"><font color="#111111"><span
style='color:#111111;text-decoration:none'>Amar Toor</span></font></a> </span></font></i></span><span
lang=EN-CA><a href="http://www.engadget.com/editor/amar-toor/rss.xml"><i><font
size=2 color="#111111" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:#111111;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none'><img border=0
width=11 height=10 id="Picture_x005f_x0020_2"
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class=caption6><i><font size=2 color="#111111" face=Georgia><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt'>posted </span></font></i></span><span class=posttime><i><font
size=2 color="#111111" face=Georgia><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;color:#111111;font-style:italic'>Sep 9th 2011 3:31AM</span></font></i></span><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
11.0pt'><a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/us-senate-passes-patent-system-reform-bill-obama-expected-to-si/"><span
style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=250 height=217
id="Picture_x005f_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CC6EC7.119D98F0"
alt="Description: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/09/us-patent-certificate.jpg"></span></a>Think
it's time to <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/">change</a>
our <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/patent+troll/">patent system</a>? So
does Congress. Yesterday, the Senate approved the America Invents Act by an
89-8 vote that could bring about the most drastic changes to the US Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) in five decades. Under the bill, which the House
approved back in June, patents would be awarded not to the first person to
invent a technology, but to the first one to actually file with the USPTO,
bringing <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
policy in line with protocol adopted in most other countries. It also calls for
a streamlined application process and would allow the USPTO to charge set fees
for all apps. The revenue generated from these fees would go directly to a
capped reserve fund, allowing the office to retain the lion's share of the
money, rather than funneling much of it to Congress, as had become the norm.<br>
<br>
Supporters say this extra revenue will give the USPTO more power to chip away
at its backlog of some 700,000 patent applications, while a new third-party
challenge system will help eliminate patents that should've never received
approval in the first place. Opponents, meanwhile, criticized the bill for not
eliminating fee diversion altogether (an amendment that would've placed more
severe restrictions was ultimately killed, for fear that it would jeopardize
the bill's passage), with Washington Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell
questioning the legislation's impact on small businesses, calling it "a
big corporation patent giveaway that tramples on the rights of small
inventors." But Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who sponsored the
bill, argued that yesterday's approval marks a major and historic inflection
point in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
patent policy:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
creativity that drives our economic engine has made <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> the global leader in
invention and innovation. The America Invents Act will ensure that inventors
large and small maintain the competitive edge that has put <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> at the
pinnacle of global innovation. This is historic legislation. It is good policy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
America Invents Act will now make its way to President Obama's desk, where it's
expected to receive his signature. For more background on the legislation,
check out the links below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
11.0pt'><a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/us-senate-passes-patent-system-reform-bill-obama-expected-to-si/">http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/us-senate-passes-patent-system-reform-bill-obama-expected-to-si/</a>
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