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Lostgallifreyan · November 11th 14, 11:09 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

(David Platt) wrote in news:4218jb-
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As I understand it, most of the world has been on a "first to file"
patent system for some time. The U.S. was the last major holdout for
the "first to invent" standard. Due to the lack of uniformity, I
believe it was possible for U.S. and (e.g.) European courts to come to
legitimately different conclusions about who was the rightful patent
holder in a dispute. I rather suspect that the changeover in the
U.S. law was done in order to try to eliminate these sorts of
contradictory court decisions.

Agreed. I suspect that the US will not result in a frenzy any more than
exists anywhere else.Actually I think the main purpose may be true reform,
after all the first requirement for reform is consensus.