US President Barack Obama speaks before signing the America Invents Act at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, on September 16, 2011. The act reforms the patent application system from one that awards patents to the first person to invent something to a system that awards the first person to file a patent application on an invention. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

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Filed under: by Sonja Eddings Brown, Sep 19, 2011