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Category: Patent Legislation
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By Donald Zuhn — As reported in today’s issue of the IPO Daily News (an e-mail and online newsletter distributed by the Intellectual Property Owners Association), a draft of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s report on the Patent Reform Act of 2007 (S. 1145) has begun to circulate on the internet. The 106-page draft…
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By Donald Zuhn — Yesterday, we counted down the first third of the top fifteen stories that were covered on Patent Docs in 2007 (see "Top Stories of 2007: #15 to #11"). Today, we count down stories #10 to #6, and tomorrow, we will count down the top five stories. In case you…
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By Baltazar Gomez — We previously reported on the passage by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & pensions of bill S.1695, entitled "The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2007." The bill’s sponsors stated that the bill reflects a balanced approach that enables patients to have safe and effective…
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By Donald Zuhn — On Tuesday, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) engaged in a brief but enlightening discussion on the Senate floor regarding the state of Senate’s patent reform bill. Senator Leahy, the sponsor of the Senate patent reform bill (S.1145), opened the…
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By Donald Zuhn — It took a bit longer than many members of the patent bar expected, but the new continuation and claims rules, which were preliminarily enjoined on October 31st by Judge James Cacheris of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the patent reform bills passed by…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last week, we received two messages from a reader (aka: "Patent Warrior") regarding an article published in China Intellectual Property News on November 7, 2007, and the response to this article by U.S. Representatives Michael Michaud (D-ME) and Donald Manzullo (R-IL). The article, which was only recently translated (a…
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By Donald Zuhn — The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) announced today that IPO President Marc Adler has written a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy (at right), urging the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary to delete a provision from the Senate Patent Reform Act (S.1145) that would require applicants to submit…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Breda Lund, writing in the November 28th edition of The Generic Line, reports that the Senate may consider its version of the patent "reform" bill, S. 1145, during the next session of the 110th Congress when it convenes next January. According to Ms. Lund, Matthew Sandgren, counsel to…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier today, Patent Docs participated in a conference call with Jim Greenwood, the President and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). Mr. Greenwood, who represented Pennsylvania’s Eighth District in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 1993 through January 2005 prior to his BIO appointment, had invited a…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1908, a bill intended to "reform" U.S. patent law. Pushed by special interests (mostly in the IT arena) frustrated by the proliferation of patent rights over the past twenty-five years, the bill would fundamentally change U.S. patent law. Whether…
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