Democratic Senator Chris Coons looks to slow the speed of the Innovation Act being passed.
Chris Coons, a Democratic Senator in the US, is attempting to slow the progress of a bill which 144 universities recently said could be damaging to tech transfer.
Drafted to counteract patent abuse by so-called patent trolls, universities have said that the broad changes to patent law could, in fact, have the reverse effect by increasing the resources a university would need to defend a patent. Under the new law, patents would be defended similar under laws similar to the…
