On the recordApril 23, 1997
As I mentioned to the gentleman, when you file in Europe or you file in Japan, you file a generic patent. You do not file the kind of detailed patent that you do in this country. We have a different kind of patent system, and the proof is in the pudding. Look at this country compared to the places that we are competing with. So it seems to me that we should be about the task of saying, if we have created a good system, how do we make the system here function better for our people rather than getting ourselves into a position where we are arguing to rubberstamp an agreement that is going to harmonize the United States with countries whose systems are flat, who commercialize the inventions made here, and we will disadvantage our own people by getting them caught up in all types of litigation. Why are we making it harder for the people of the United States to protect their intellectual property?
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