Melvin Watt: “American innovation cannot be held hostage to frivolous litigation from weak or over-broad patents.”

Woman, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am pained to be here today in opposition to this bill. I stood shoulder to shoulder with the chair of our full committee 2 years ago in patent reform after working almost 6 years to find…

if you look at my record throughout my whole life, from the day I started in the practice of law in a civil rights law firm, you will find nobody, or few people, who are more committed to the things that you all have talked about today.

I am wondering, if you think this is redundant and extraneous rather than contrary to the intent, why wouldn't we just accept the amendment and keep going?

But that is not a justification for an individual member of a collaborative body to make a unilateral decision to turn over confidential information.