The Patent That Ate Upwards The World

Did y'all know that the United States of America is seeking a worldwide patent? came across the following statement on the Committee of the Judiciary website:

Single, Low-Cost World Patent. The toll to U.S. companies as well as inventors of applying for as well as obtaining course of pedagogy patents inward each of 150 or to a greater extent than countries is prohibitive. Indeveloping countries as well as fifty-fifty inward Europe, patent fees are at such high levels that they constitute a revenue enhancement on innovation. European authorities fees to obtain andmaintain a patent are to a greater extent than than 10 times the fees inward the U.S. In addition, the expense of retaining course of pedagogy patent attorneys or agents inward each unusual province is burdensome as well as expensive. The United States of America could accept a leadership piece of job inward negotiating an understanding nether which countries would laissez passer on amount religious belief as well as credit to patents granted yesteryear an international organisation or 1 of the iii largest patent offices inward the world– the U.S. Patent Office, the European Patent Office, or the Japanese Patent Office. Countries giving amount religious belief as well as credit would accuse a minimal fee for patenting inward that country, as well as it would hold upward unnecessary to retain course of pedagogy patent attorneys or agents to obtain a patent inward that country. The obstacles to negotiating as well as implementing such an organisation would hold upward formidable, but a unmarried low-cost globe patent is the best long-term approach to obtaining effective world-wide patent protection for U.S. companies as well as inventors. [Emphasis is simply feline inward origin.]

wonders how countries other than the Big Three volition experience nearly this (or fifty-fifty the 2 of the iii who notice their services surplus to requirements). He besides wonders if the doctrine of “central attack” would apply (where if an IP correct is institute to hold upward invalid inward its habitation country, its registrations inward other countries are besides invalidated).

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