New Bill Would Bring Back Terrible Software and Genetic Patents

A recently introduced patent bill would authorize patents on abstract ideas just for including computer jargon, and would even legalize the patenting of human genes. The “Patent Eligibility Restoration Act,” sponsored by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), explicitly overrides some of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the past 15 years, and would tear down some of the public’s only protections from the worst patent abuses. 

Pro-patent maximalists are trying to label the Tillis bill as a “consensus,” but it’s …

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