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by Elite 5747 days ago
>this process will be overseen by David Kappos, the current director of the USPTO and formerly an attorney at IBM in charge of their heavy-handed patent strategy.

Looks like the deck is already stacked. Are there any companies or elected officials with significant political/financial capital aggressively campaigning for this? This movement needs a champion to make this topic relevant to bureacrats and I don't know if Stallman's the guy.