The House Judiciary Committee approved its version of legislation aimed at overhauling the nation’s patent system on Thursday, after hours of voting on amendments.
The bill, approved on a 32-3 vote, would change the United States to a “first-to-file” system, which would award patents to the inventor who filed an application first, as opposed to allowing a fight over who actually invented something first. It would allow the Patent and Trademark Office to set fees and would prevent Congress from taking those fees for other programs.
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