Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 164.

Friday, Sep. 23, 2011, I conducted a Mises Academy Webinar discussing the America Invents Act, signed into law Sept. 16 2011 by President Obama. I discussed the webinar in a Mises Daily article, Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity? (archived comments) and discussed the AIA in further detail in The American Invents Act and Patent Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly.

In the webinar, I:

summarized the basic problem with patent law from a free-market perspective;

presented a series of real patent reforms that could make significant improvement in patent law (short of abolition);

explained and critiqued the relevant changes made by the America Invents Act;

briefly summarized other imminent IP legislation and treaties on the horizon; and

responded to questions from attendees.

The slides used in the webinar are provided below.

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