A bill for the reform of the patentenstelsel in the United States is still for the mood toned down. With the law it would be for the American patentenbureau easier should be to make software patents invalid.
The part of the bill that provides for the easier removal of software patents is for the vote in the U.s. House Judiciary Committee removed, reports The Washington Post. According to the newspaper, the component is deleted after a big lobby campaign of the large technology companies such as Microsoft and IBM.
By the reform of the patentenstelsel wanted the American government make it more difficult for patent trolls to technology companies to complain. In the past few years, there are several businesses where the main goal is to make money with patents, something that is often through lawsuits due to alleged patenteninbreuk is done. Many of these lawsuits are in the United States.
The deletion of patents in the United States through the so-called covered business method, the method by which it is possible to ‘quickly and effectively’ patents of low quality if you invalidated. However, this is not possible for all types of patents. Via the bill had the covered business method should be extended, so that software patents are covered below.
Microsoft spoke previously been openly against a reform of the patentenstelsel, where the company is of the opinion that software patents in their current form must continue to exist. The American patentenbureau USPTO has been for some time busy with the orientation to reform.