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posted by Fnord666 on Monday September 11 2017, @10:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the clever-lawyers dept.

Dr. Lowe has scary patent news. Allergan's patent on Restasis is being questioned in court.

Last December, the US Patent Office granted an inter partes review of the relevant patents, a decision that did not go down well with Allergan or its investors. That form of patent review has been around since 2011 and the America Invents Act, and its purpose is specifically for prior art objections to a granted patent.

Looks bad for Allergan, but then they got sneaky. They transferred the patent rights to St. Regis Mohawk Indian Nation. Why? The Indian Nation is a sovereign nation, and our patent laws don't apply to them.

Scary stuff.


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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday September 12 2017, @07:58AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @07:58AM (#566600) Homepage Journal

    I'll tell you what. If you look, if you look at some of the reservations that our government has approved, that it, in its great wisdom has approved, I will tell you right now -- they don't look like Indians to me. And they don't look like the Indians. Now, maybe we say politically correct or not politically correct, they don't look like Indians to me, and they don't look like Indians to Indians. And a lot of people are laughing at it. And certain people are telling me how tough it is and how rough it is to get approved. Well, you go to Connecticut and you look. Now, they don't look like Indians to me. Only Indians can have the reservations, only Indians can have the gaming. Why can't everybody? It's discriminatory. Why is it that the Indians don't pay tax, but everybody else does? I do. Sometimes I do. 🇺🇸

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