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ALERT. Senate 507 Pending Committee Vote

Question:

Fellow Americans… If you or someone you love has a serious disease, you should be very concerned about legislation being quietly rushed through Congress. Already having passed the House, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) UT is heading this drive that is being actively supported by large corporations and their law firms. This bill actively discourages inventors because it destroys most incentives that they need to pursue the search for a cure.  How?  It would turn the U.S. Patent Office into a private corporation, where influence counts, and there would be no requirement for small inventors on the governing board.  It would call for publication of applications before granting. It would permit spurious litigation challenging patent validity. It would hugely increase fees to cover an additional $419 million per year in surcharges.  It does not even have the protections against predatory invention marketing firms that the House bill had.  And on and on. The terms of the bill are even worse than the House version which just passed. Remember, it wasn’t Monsanto or Dupont who discovered penicillin…or the smallpox vaccine.  It was individual inventors working by themselves or for educational institutions. The Senate Judiciary Committee, which has no advocate for small inventors, will vote on this bill in a few days.  Please fax a note to them immediately expressing your outrage and instructing them to               Vote AGAINST S.507. Call the Capitol at 800/962-3524 and ask for your senator’s fax number, in case this turkey ever comes to vote in the full chamber.  Meanwhile, access: http://www.in-search-of.com/frames/government/campaign/s507.shtml to send a modifyable e-mail message to all members of the Committee.

Response:

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I did not make the original post, I simply replied to one where it was clear that the writer missed what should have been an obvious connection.  There is no shortage of real spam and I think we should all direct our hostility for spam at the real spammers.  Directing such hostility towards a border line case such as the post which started this thread is counter productive.  I will now allow you to return to your self pity. But don’t be surprised that the cures people on these forums need may take considerably longer to be invented. See my post in response to Lyn Wall’s above. I have worked for medical instrumentation companies.  Lack of technological invention in health care is NOT the present prime problem with health care — as ‘most everyone knows today.

I also worked in medical instrumentation and I have spent the last ten years as an independent inventor.  There is a big difference between those who market inventions and the inventors themselves. Second, you are mixing up technology with invention.  Examples of areas where we desperately need new inventions are: Brain function, our understanding of the brain and treatments for disfunction are very limited. Antibiotics, we are within two years of having bacterial infections that are completely resistant to all known antibiotics. And, we have never developed effective treatments for viral diseases. In fact MDs and other elements of the health-care delivery system, in the US particularly, ulteriorly use recent technology more as tools to elevate their statuses and incomes than in such proper manner as to efficiently improve the health of their clientele.

There is most certainly truth in this statement.  I would note though that the best doctors generally go into research, and that the ones with which you are associating are probably either excessively greedy or second rater

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