H.R.2795
Patent Reform Act of 2005
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06/08/2005 Introduced in House
04/25/2005 - Dean Kamen, President DEKA Research & Development Corp.
Inventor of the SEGWAY two wheeled balancing scooter.
Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to be here today at this important hearing. I am Dean Kamen, President of DEKA Research & Development Corp., a technology development company based in Manchester, New Hampshire that I founded in 1982. As a holder of more than 100 U.S. patents, I am pleased to speak to you today from the perspective of an inventor.
As a small businessman whose company relies heavily on intellectual property, I feel that maintaining strong patent protection for America’s inventors is critical. From my perspective, some of the proposals currently being discussed – such as the weakening of injunctive relief, post-grant opposition, and the elimination of the presumption of patent validity – are extremely concerning
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04/28/2005 - Nathan P. Myhrvold, Chief Executive Officer Intellectual Ventures
former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft
As long as I can remember I have been fascinated with science and technology. I pursued science in school, earning a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, and master’s degree in geophysics and space physics, both from UCLA. I continued exploring other disciplines, getting another master’s degree in mathematical economics and a PhD in mathematical physics from Princeton University. I would have finished school much earlier if I had focused on one topic, but to be honest I never met a kind of science I didn’t like. This obsession with schooling might have consumed half my life, but for the fact that I started early, entering college at 14, and completing my PhD by age 23.
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