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[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So it's clear: This has a link where you can give public comment against the proposed new rules!!!

Go here, and either paste in what the EFF has pre-made for you, or ideally, write your own!

I oppose the USPTO’s proposed rule changes for inter partes review (IPR), Docket No. PTO-P-2025-0025. The IPR process must remain open and fair. Patent challenges should be decided on their merits, not shut out because of legal activity elsewhere. These rules would make it nearly impossible for the public to challenge bad patents, and that will harm innovation and everyday technology users.

[–] Syun@retrolemmy.com 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Done. One thing that ought to be widely brought up as an argument against, besides the obvious, is that this regulation (as I understand things) is being proposed under the authority given to regulators under the Chevron deference law of I think 1984. In any case, this was thrown out by the supreme court last year, and quite correctly. The case that got it thrown out was about the ATF's ability to make up whatever gun laws they wanted to. Dems argued that it needed to be preserved because it allows agencies to regulate things, but I asked myself if that was true, and decided that the wild deregulation of the 80s were enabled by it, and that things like net neutrality were able to be killed by appointed bureaucrats because of it. The argument for it is that lawmakers shouldn't have to be subject experts on everything, but the argument against it is that any law too vague for a legislator to understand is unconstitutionally vague and laws should be required to be written well. Also, it's the job of congress to make laws, not appointees of whatever President who happens to be sitting in office who're doing as they're bid.

At this stage, anything pushing back on executive power is a fine thing indeed.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 22 points 9 hours ago

When you make legal recourse unavailable, you make... other methods inevitable.