OT: Patent Reform Act of 2007

If this doesn't boil your coffee, nothing will.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1178096682581

Additionally, a party may petition for cancellation at any
time if the party can establish a "substantial reason" that
the continuing existence of the patent "causes or is likely
to cause" that party "significant economic harm."

So, presumably if you choose to benefit economically from
your patent, or you try to control who can, the PTO (not a
court) can decide that your patent causes "significant
economic harm" to someone and invalidate your patent.

Or try this gem:

The Patent Reform Act of 2007 would switch the United States
to a first-to-file patent system that is followed by nearly
all foreign countries. Under the proposed system, the first
person to file a patent application for a claimed invention
is entitled to any patent rights.

Thus invalidating in a stroke all protections of "prior
art."


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