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The latest proposal from the USPTO in the USA will make it more difficult for everyone working on open source projects to fight bad patents. We must stop this now by providing a high volume of comments in opposition. Submit your comments now and stand up for the important mechanism to remove bad patents from the system so that patent trolls abusing these can be stopped!

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[–] desantoos@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Here is the proposed text: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/21/2023-08239/changes-under-consideration-to-discretionary-institution-practices-petition-word-count-limits-and

The news piece linked is too vague in its explanation on what precisely is in this text that will help patent trolls. I also can't figure out what it is from my skimming. Perhaps someone with a better legal reading can elucidate.