Dem Sens. Blast Idea Of Charging Value-Based Patent Fees

By Elliot Weld ( December 23, 2025, 7:35 PM EST) -- A group of Democratic U.S. senators has asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick not to move forward with a proposed overhaul of the U.S. patent fee system that reportedly would implement fees based on a patent's value, saying such changes would create a "prohibitive bar to innovation for start-ups and other small-to-mid-size businesses."...

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