H.R. 6986 is a bill introduced in the House of Representatives that aims to manage the issue of patent thickets, particularly in the pharmaceutical and biological product sectors. The bill proposes limiting the number of patents that can be asserted in a lawsuit for infringement to one per...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 6986 is a new idea that tries to make it fairer when people argue about who owns special ideas for medicines. It says that if you have a bunch of ideas that are very close to each other, you can only use one at a time in a big fight about who thought of it first.