A proposal that posed a threat to U.S. national security has been withdrawn. America’s valuable, cutting-edge inventions would have been more vulnerable to Chinese and other competitors’ theft — along with an antitrust sledgehammer wielded against U.S. innovators.
The U.S. Department of Justice, the Patent and Trademark Office and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in December withdrew a pro-innovation 2019 joint policy statement. The agencies floated a policy shift belligerently against protecting U.S. patents essential to a technological standard.
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