Zoe Bollinger
Feb 2, 2015
Conservatives slam patent reform as secret Obama gift to Google
Conservatives slam patent reform as secret Obama gift to Google:
The division within the Republican congressional majority that killed tough anti-abortion legislation and has bottled up immigration reform is now threatening bipartisan âpatent reform,â with some conservative critics warning that it amounts to a secret Obama gift to Google. As Congress moves to pass the comprehensive reform, critics including likely 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell are urging a slow down. They claim that the rush for broad reform, while geared to limiting lawsuits, threatens inventors. They also charge that companies such as Google, which has hundreds of patents, has cozied up to the Obama administration to win the new reforms that might protect their effort to out-patent competitors like Apple.
The division within the Republican congressional majority that killed tough anti-abortion legislation and has bottled up immigration reform is now threatening bipartisan âpatent reform,â with some conservative critics warning that it amounts to a secret Obama gift to Google. As Congress moves to pass the comprehensive reform, critics including likely 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell are urging a slow down. They claim that the rush for broad reform, while geared to limiting lawsuits, threatens inventors. They also charge that companies such as Google, which has hundreds of patents, has cozied up to the Obama administration to win the new reforms that might protect their effort to out-patent competitors like Apple.