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Fix the Backlog, Don’t Revamp Entire System

By Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Special to Roll Call
Oct. 22, 2007, Midnight

The American patent system has been instrumental in the success of our country. It has resulted in technology that expanded production, created wealth and thus elevated the standard of living of our people. Yet there are powerful forces that would dramatically change the basic patent system that has served us so well for more than 200 years.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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Fix the Backlog, Don’t Revamp Entire System

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