For a second there, it looked as if Congress was about to fix the country’s dysfunctional patent system. The House passed a bipartisan bill in December, supported by the White House and a coalition of retail and tech giants, that would have stopped the legal and economic mayhem wrought by so-called patent trolls. The Senate was racing to do the same — and then pfffftttt. Progress ground to a halt in committee last month.
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