Momentum is building in Washington to finally fix the country’s patent system, but the good guys better hurry. While Sen. Clare McCaskill, who has decried patent troll “bottom feeders,” moved to fast-track a reform bill this week, the trolls have been busy too. The most pernicious of them, Intellectual Ventures, has started a PAC and could succeed in neutering real reform before Congress scatters to campaign for the mid-terms.
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