02/26/2014
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"The Judiciary Committee has been doing everything it can to fulfill that mandate including on the regulatory reform front."
"Such patents harm innovation by blocking off broad areas of endeavor, and not giving inventors enough room to innovate."
"For many patent trolls, their weapon of choice was a business method patent."
"The system was clogged with numerous low quality patents that had slipped past the Patent and Trademark Office."