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From: Eagle Forum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 12:05 AM
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Subject: EMERGENCY ALERT FROM PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
Importance: High
EAGLE FORUM CAPITOL ALERT -- July 31, 1999
Don't Fall for Phony "Patent Reform"
EMERGENCY ALERT FROM PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY AND EAGLE
FORUM. ACTION URGENTLY NEEDED BEFORE NOON ON
MONDAY AUGUST 2 by all who care about constitutional rights and
America's future. Help us stop Congress from giving away the rights
of independent inventors.
At 4 p.m. on Friday, July 30, after most offices had closed for the
weekend, Rep. Howard Coble took the Patent bill, H.R. 1907
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.01907:), away
from Rep. Dan Burton (who was going to hold hearings), dropped out
Title VI, gave the bill a new number, H.R. 2654, referred it to the
Judiciary Committee, got it out of Judiciary, and placed it
number-three on the Suspension Calendar for Monday, August 2.
This is a sneaky way to pass the bill without the American people
knowing about it until it is too late. Why can't the American people
have advance notice that such an important bill is to be voted on?
Why don't we have a chance to voice our opinions publicly about the
dangers lurking in the bill before it is rushed to a vote?
Why was it put on suspension of the rules, which precludes floor
debate on specifics of the bill and means it can't be amended? Is Mr.
Coble afraid of amendments? Is he afraid of a floor debate on the
dangers of the bill?
Doing this deed at 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon, and prearranging to
have his own letter to the editor in favor of the new bill printed in a
Washington, D.C. newspaper on Saturday morning, was an
underhanded method of precluding any debate, ad or news story
about the bill. This is not the way our government should work.
This bill is called the American Inventors Protection Act, but
should be called the Inventors Elimination Act. The independent
inventors would be squeezed out and their inventions stolen from
them, all for the benefit of the foreigners and the giant corporations.
Who is behind this Patent bill? This bill is a blatant attempt by the
Clinton Administration and the Democrats in Congress to legislate a
deal made by Ron Brown with the Japanese Ambassador and with
the Chinese who were providing political money for Clinton's
reelection. This is also a blatant attempt by Republicans to pay off
the multinational corporations who have donated so much political
hard and soft money.
We urgently need your help to defeat this terrible bill by calling your
Member of Congress over the weekend or the very first thing Monday
morning. Powerful special-interests are determined to change (in the
phony name of "reform") our enormously successful patent system,
the keystone of America's technological superiority and economic
success.
America has produced more major inventions than all the rest of the
world combined. This is because our Founding Fathers set up the
U.S. Patent Office to protect the constitutional right of independent
inventors to the "exclusive" ownership of their inventions for a limited
number of years, after which the inventions belong to the public.
Phony "reform" of the U.S. system is aggressively sought not only by
the foreigners, whose motive is to steal U.S. intellectual property, but
also by the multinationals that want to control all innovation. If you
are DaimlerChrysler or IBM, for example, you certainly don't want an
independent inventor working in his garage to develop a new product
that you don't control and which might cut in on your market share.
A lot of lies are being told about this bill. You will be told that it's
very
different from the Omnibus ("Ominous") Patent bill that Congress
refused to pass last year. Don't be fooled. It's not very different, it's
only slightly different. The bill's wording has changed a little, but the
goal of the sponsors remains the same. Even more important, the
backers of this bill plan to restore all the bad stuff when it goes to the
Conference committee.
You will be told that the 25 Nobel Laureates, who signed a
remarkable joint letter opposing last year's bill, have changed their
views. That's a lie. It says: "It will prove very damaging to American
small inventors and thereby discourage the flow of new inventions
that have contributed so much to America's superior performance in
the advancement of science and technology." The burden of proof is
on Mr. Coble to prove that his current bill has eliminated all the
objections that the Nobel Laureates made to last year's bill, and he
hasn't met that burden. Milton Friedman (one of the Nobel Laureates)
wrote Dana Rohrabacher, telling him, "you have been taking my
name in vain in connection with the patent reform bill."
You may be told that Phyllis Schlafly has approved this bill. That's a
lie. I oppose it and believe it is the most dangerous bill in the current
Congress.
You will hear that the new bill is OK because Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher is for it, and he was a big opponent of the bill in the last
session. The fact is that Dana is the one who has changed.
The chief argument we hear in behalf of patent "reform" legislation is
that we should "harmonize" with other countries. But why should
America harmonize with unsuccessful systems? Let other countries
harmonize with us!
Title II of this bad bill will undermine the rights of independent
inventors by providing for "prior user rights." This will enable
corporations to claim a "prior use right" and thereby steal the
independent inventor's constitutional right to "exclusive" ownership of
his discovery.
Title V, which allows third parties to participate in an expanded
reexamination process, gives infringers the opportunity to delay an
inventor's effective use of his patent rights. Because it will encourage
litigation, it should be called the "patent lawyers' full employment
act."
Information available at www.eagleforum.org includes the
important letter from the 25 Nobel Laureates, Phyllis Schlafly's
other articles, a strong letter from MRI inventor Dr. Raymond
Damadian, an excellent article by national security expert Frank
Gaffney, and links to a letter from Hawaii Governor Benjamin
Cayetano.
ACTION:
Please phone (202-225-3121), fax, or email your Member of
Congress immediately and ask him to vote NO on this phony
Patent bill, which is due to be voted on Monday, August 2. Also
call Speaker Denny Hastert (202-225-2976, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]), Majority Leader Dick Armey
(202-225-7772, e-mail: N/A), and Majority Whip Tom DeLay (
202-225-5951, e-mail: http://www.house.gov/writerep/).
Further information may be found at Patent Rights Page :
http://eagleforum.org/patent/index.html
CONTACT INFORMATION:
House E-mail:
http://eagleforum.org/alert/house-info.html
OR
Contacting Congress - Great site for congressional contact information:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD: (202) 225-3121
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On-line version of this Alert may be found at:
http://eagleforum.org/alert/patent/99-07-31.html
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