The Parliament of the United States passed a law against patent trolls

The bill "The Innovation Act of 2013" passed through the House of Representatives - the lower American Chamber of Parliament. He was voted both parties, with the overall result of 325-91 . Such unanimity is understandable: the recent history of patent trolls who try to knock the cost of small business owners, hotels and restaurants, have caused great public interest.

What is important, Parliament has successfully blocked the поправки to the bill , who tried to exclude from its critical points.

The most heated discussion revolved around an amendment that excludes from the point of the bill on the transfer of court fees on a "loser pays". The fact that the Democratic Party of the United States has traditionally opposed such principle, explaining its injustice in too small cases. Indeed, in a strange way to pay a fine of $ 100 and court costs of $ 5,000. Therefore, the Democrats voted for the amendment 174-18.

In the case of patent trolls is not about some injustice of the question, and then processes usually are not limited to one hundred dollars. So you have to thank the Republicans who have blocked the amendment 25-195. The overall result of the adoption of this amendment, 199-213.

Another amendment sought to weaken the other key point of the bill - the principle of delayed cases against users of the technology. Republicans have tried to limit the effect of this principle only for companies with revenue up to $ 25 million. The vote of 144-266.

In the end, the Parliament has blocked another amendment by Democrat John Conyers, who tried to cut the bill and leave it only point about transparency. Probably lobbied intellectual property owners attempt failed: 157-258.

As a result, Parliament adopted only one amendment that eliminates from the bill old, rarely used in the jurisprudence rule which allows the owner of a patent to protect its intellectual property in the event that he can not get documents from the patent office.

Law "The Innovation Act of 2013" is intended to stop the most egregious forms of trolling at the expense of several methods.

1. Details
2. Translations court fees
3. Transparency
4. Delay cases against users of the technology
5. The reform of mandatory disclosure of documents to the court
6. Review of the issuance of
Electronic Frontier Foundation approved the bill and called it the best bill against the trolls of all previously released.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/205034/