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Big Tech’s abuse of the patent system must end—take it from me, I’ve fought Google over IP for years
The bipartisan PREVAIL Act and RESTORE Patent Rights Act would make critical reforms to curb the abuse of the U.S. patent system by Big Tech.
Today, instead of investing in R&D and developing as many new products as possible, Netlist is forced to spend tens of millions of dollars on protracted litigation to protect our past inventions. They realized small businesses and individual inventors, the main actors in the innovation process, needed protection from bigger entities that might steal and copy their inventions. The outcome defies common sense and goes against bedrock principles of our legal system, such as deference to historical decisions and no double jeopardy—in this case, the '912 patent has been subjected to quintuple jeopardy.
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