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Listen. >> if we get patent reform legislation done and the uspto is set free, deficit neutral to go attack that backlog and put patents out so americans can create jobs i believe youre going to see at least hundreds of thousands, and over a period of kwraoer years, literally milf jobs created. >> reporter: think about the laser which now appears in everything from that barcode scanner in your supermarket to saoupblg cal equipment and imagine all of the jobs that that single invention has create...

Patented. pay attention, there is a battle over patent reform shaping up on capitol hill. a bill in front of the u.s. senate would stream like the patent process. backers say the overhaul is long overdue that it will help create new,-paying jobs. critics say the new system would hurt the little guys. jonathan serrie live for us in atlanta. what kind of changes are we talking about here for the patent process. >> reporter: they are trying to address a huge backlog. usually the u.s. patent and tra...

Of people are either. >> weve got to start a movement, david. you have to be pretty smart in this world to file a patent. if you want to be smarter, reed davids stuff on money.com. he writes about all of this stuff. youll get better at it. to check out more on the patent process and see more pictures, head to cnn.com/ali. another bush in the white house. mark preston has the details next.

Date has been very positive, but that said, we did talk about areas for improvement. one would be leveling the playing field, so making sure that u.s. companies like motorola solutions and others have equal access and a level playing field to compete for chinese government contracts as we go against indigenous providers within the country. the second was intellectual property. a lot of u.s. multinational companies develop r & d, develop a sophisticated patent process and its fundamental that the...

Section thats just patents, trademarks and copyright and they have everything right there for a very low amount of money. >> we talk about this a lot on the show and people have different views whether you should incur the time and expense to go through the patent process and thats something you have to ask yourself in the beginning because its not something you sign up and get the patent tomorrow. it is years. >> all you get is the right to go to court. >> and then you need 0 to defend it. >> t...

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Their jobs when the housing market went bust. right now, we can give our entrepreneurs the chance to let their job creating ideas move to market faster by streamlining our patent process. today, congress can streamline trade agreements to help businesses sell more american-made goods to asia and south america. and supporting thousands of jobs here at home. right now, there are a lot of middle-class families who sure could use the security of knowing that the tax cut that i signed in december to ...

Redouble our efforts on behalf of the american people. let me give you some examples. right now there are over a million construction workers out of work after the housing boom went bust. just as a lot of america needs rebuilding. we connect the two by investing in rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our railways and our infrastructure. and we could put back to work right now some of those construction workers that lost their jobs when the housing market went bust. right now we can give our...