Manufacturing Alliance Statement on Patent Legislation
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Written by Gene Quinn President & Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc. Patent Attorney, Reg. No. 44,294 Zies, Widerman & Malek E-mail | Blog | Twitter | LinkedIn Posted: Mar 3, 2009 @ 4:59 pm 
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PRESS RELEASE:
Washington, D.C, March 3 – The Manufacturing Alliance on Patent Policy (MAPP) released the following statement regarding introduction of legislation to modify the U.S. patent system.
Chief among our concerns is the language that reduces penalties on those who take the intellectual property of others. While we appreciate the sponsors’ willingness to hear our concerns, the legislation as introduced includes language from last Congress that would seriously undermine our patent protections.
We share the desire to improve the patent system. We are concerned that reducing penalties for patent infringement would jeopardize manufacturing jobs and R&D investment without strengthening patent protection. A recent economic analysis showed that aspects of this legislation would put as many as 298,000 manufacturing jobs at risk and reduce R&D investment by up to $66 billion. This would be the wrong direction at a time when the American economy is struggling severely.
The manufacturing sector is one of the most creative in the American economy. Every year, we invest billions of dollars in research and development, followed by billions more to manufacture our innovations. We rely on the U.S. patent system to protect our investments, and those protections provide an incentive for us to continue manufacturing in the United States.
We believe substantial improvements to the patent system are possible, and we look forward to working with the Congress to make those improvements in ways that benefit all sectors of the American economy.
About MAPP
MAPP participants employ more than 260,000 U.S. workers in a diverse range of industries including chemicals, transportation, agriculture, food, electronics, aerospace, medical devices and building construction. In January 2009, MAPP released the first-ever economic analysis of how certain patent law proposals could impact employment and R&D investment. Please visit www.mfgpatentpolicy.org for additional information.
About the Author
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Eugene R. Quinn, Jr.
President & Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc. US Patent Attorney (Reg. No. 44,294) Zies, Widerman & Malek B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center L.L.M. in Intellectual Property, Franklin Pierce Law Center Send me an e-mail  |
Gene Quinn is a US Patent Attorney, law professor and the founder of IPWatchdog.com. He is also a principal lecturer in the top patent bar review course in the nation, which helps aspiring patent attorneys and patent agents prepare themselves to pass the patent bar exam. Known by many as “The IPWatchdog,” Gene started the widely popular intellectual property website IPWatchdog.com in 1999, and since that time the site has had millions of unique visitors. Gene has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the LA Times, CNN Money, NPR and various other newspapers and magazines worldwide. He represents individuals, small businesses and start-up corporations. As an electrical engineer with a computer engineering focus his specialty is electronic and computer devices, Internet applications, software and business methods.
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