Last month, a bipartisan group of U. S.

Save the Inventor and its allies are committed to protecting small inventors, innovators, and businesses in the United States against overbroad patent legislation that threatens to weaken the patent system. Over the last few years, there has been a consistent narrative from anti-patent organizations and companies claiming that patent litigation is on the rise and that it’s weakening innovation in America.

There are many reasons Congress should vote no on S. 1137, the patent bill being considered in the Senate.

Public perceptions have played a key role in the legislative debate over patent policy. So we have been tracking some interesting surveys that relate to patent issues: Lex Machina shared a study that showed patent case filings in September of 2014 are down 40% year-to-year.

At Save The Inventor, our goal is to be a resource for the latest news, facts, interviews and the occasional opinion about legislative changes to our patent system and potential risks to the best incentive for inventors and innovation in the industrial world. It is our belief that any effort to address abuse in patent litigation through changes to the law should be narrowly focused to avoid placing new burdens on patent holders, and carefully crafted to preserve the role of an independent judiciary.

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