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Dana Rohrabacher: “If a company steals someone's nice idea and does not pay them for it and starts using it, especially foreign companies…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 2007
If a company steals someone's nice idea and does not pay them for it and starts using it, especially foreign companies, this bill actually reduces the amount of money that can be expected by changing the criteria of how you can assess damages. What you will end up with is it won't be worthwhile for the inventor to have to pay the lawyers and go after these infringers, and our inventors will be high and dry, the technology that they do invent will go overseas, so they will cease to invent. Who is going to be worse off? Everybody is going to be worse off.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of a bill on patent damages and inventor protections.

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