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Dana Rohrabacher: “Reclaiming my time, Ms. Kaptur has made a really important observation here, and that is, at the end of the day, yeah…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 2007
Reclaiming my time, Ms. Kaptur has made a really important observation here, and that is, at the end of the day, yeah, the Issa amendment does make some changes, but at the end of the day, there will be American patent applications in which the inventor would like to keep secret until he gets the patent issued to him, which will be published for all of the thieves in China and India and Japan and Korea and elsewhere who would like to have all of that information before the patent is issued. There will still be a significant number of patent applications published for the whole world to see, and the patent applicant doesn't want that.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Discussing concerns about patent application publication and inventor privacy.

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