Creative Methods Act

I’m trying to not put effort into policy this term because we need to focus our energy outward and policy debates drain energy that should be directed into campaigning. That said, I have worked on patent stuff in the past and should share that info here.

I don’t think our policy is that jumbled, there are the core issues, then specific issues around various applications of patent law. It reflects the legislative (and case-law) environment around patents.

If people want to build a new policy from the ground up to make it somehow more coherent, it would probably make the policy better than what is there. That said, I think most, if not all of the main issues are covered in our current policy.

The big change since our formation was Patents: Raising the Bar amendments in 2012, which fixed some of the problems with patents (explainer is here). The disclosure standard was raised significantly, exemptions carved out for research and I think ever-greening was made more difficult (But I am not certain on that point). This was a bit of a victory for us because patents got less shit.

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