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Why The TERM Act Is A Misguided Solution To A Different Problem

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The “Terminating the Extension of Rights Misappropriated (TERM) Act of 2019” would create a presumption that every other patent listed in the Orange Book has been terminally disclaimed over the earliest-expiring Orange...more

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Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - April 2019

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Patent eligibility continues to be a hot topic in intellectual property law, and in our April issue of the Global Patent Prosecution newsletter, we look at three of the major forums impacting this area of IP. In our first...more

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Rep. Goodlatte Releases Report on H.R. 9

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Last week, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released a 200-page Report on H.R. 9, "The innovation Act," introduced by Chairman Goodlatte with several co-sponsors earlier this year. The bill sets...more

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CBO Provides Cost Estimate to Government to Implement Innovation Act

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Earlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a cost estimate for the Innovation Act (H.R. 9). The bill, which was introduced in February, was reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary in June. The...more

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Federal Circuit Upholds Broadest Reasonable Interpretation in Inter Partes Review

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A divided Federal Circuit denied the petition for rehearing en banc that would have required the court to revisit its decision in In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC (Fed Cir 2015), that upheld the USPTO’s use of the...more

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Patent Pending: The Outlook for Patent Legislation in the 114th Congress

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The field of patent law is in a state of flux. Just four years after the America Invents Act (“AIA”) went into effect, Congress is taking up the issue once again, this time seeking to pass legislation to curb abusive patent...more

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Catching-Up On House Judiciary Committee’s Revised Innovation Act

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Recently the House Judiciary Committee voted 24-8 to approve a revised version of the Innovation Act. As we previously discussed, the Innovation Act was re-introduced in the House earlier this year in the same form approved...more

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Congress Continues to Promote Patent Reform Efforts

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In recent years, Congress has devoted a great deal of attention to patent reform. Those efforts led in 2011 to passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which was the most extensive revision of the patent laws in...more

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