Will the Trump Administration Be Pro Patent? Will the Trump Administration Be Pro Patent?
By Joseph Allen February 27, 2017
.. “… unlike Ms. Clinton and President Obama, President Donald Trump has given almost no indication about his position on issues of patent policy. The anecdotal consensus, however, seems to be that the Trump administration will be more pro-patent than the low bar set by the Obama Administration, which was likely to have been followed by President Clinton.” I asked several experienced veterans of the patent reform wars to review the article and share their thoughts on some key questions. Before getting to that, here’s a quick snapshot of the column. It nicely summarizes the patent reform issues and lists the pro patent influences in the new Administration including:
- Vice President Pence, previously a defender of inventors on the House Judiciary Committee and as Governor of Indiana;
- Donald Trump, Jr., who partnered with MacroSolve “a company … that engaged in an aggressive enforcement campaign of a single software patent. Trump Jr. wrote an editorial in The Daily Caller in 2012 in defense of ‘genuine’ patent enforcement, in which he distinguished ‘trolls’ who ‘hoard software patents with the sole intention of leveraging them for a quick payday’ from companies who enforced ‘innovative’ technology.”
- Steve Bannon, chief strategist to President Trump, who ran several pro patent articles while leading Breitbart News;
- Ken Blackwell, who served on the transition team, author of “The Conservative Case Against Patent Reform;”
- Wilbur Ross, the new Secretary of Commerce, a strong advocate of cracking down on intellectual property theft;
- The Heritage Foundation, which Politico called “one of the most influential forces shaping President Donald Trump’s transition team” which opposed H.R.9, the failed patent “reform” bill in the last Congress, fearing it further weakened the patent system; and
- The American Conservative Union an advocate of a strong patent system which threatened to negatively score any member of Congress who supported H.R. 9.
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https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/02/27/will-trump-administration-be-pro-patent/id=78851/
-Trump put the intellectual property protection in law priority is a big big mistake to me.