As the House Judiciary Committee gets ready for hearing on patent trolls in coming days, we have a consensus in the tech community: The patent system has started to impede, rather than incentivize, innovation. The laundry list of what’s gone wrong is long, including a standard for patentable subject matter that makes no sense, notoriously vague and hard-to-understand claim language and — the troubling result — the rise of the patent trolls.
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