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Patient Rights and Consumer Groups Join EFF In Opposing Two Extreme Patent Bills

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The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote this Thursday on two bills that could empower patent trolls.

The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act ( PERA ) would bring back many of the abstract computer patents that have been barred for the past 10 years under Supreme Court precedent.

The PREVAIL Act would severely limit how the public can challenge wrongly granted patents at the patent office.