The Patent Reform Act of 2009, introduced in the Senate by Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and companion legislation introduced in the House by Reps. John Conyers, D-Mich ...

Leaders in Congress are making a third effort to pass the Patent Reform Act, even though divisions remain over significant portions of the legislation.

The amended Senate bill, the Patent Reform Act of 2009 (S 515), resolved many of the contentious issues that caused a deadlock over patent-reform efforts in Congress last year, and which concerned ...

Congressional efforts to reform the system stalled in the Senate last year but, on Tuesday, a bipartisan group of legislators resurrected the Patent Reform Act, sponsored in the House by John ...

Legal experts question whether The Patent Reform Act of 2009, or any legislation by Congress, can fix these problems. Congress would have to understand the intricacies of the software business.

Unfortunately, the Patent Reform Act of 2009 (HR 1260) – subject of a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week — would hurt American workers. At a time when America’s innovators ...

Major companies have been lobbying politicians for months in anticipation of the reintroduction of the Patent Reform Act, which is now scheduled for this week.

The debate over patent reform came to the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday (April 30) as a diverse set of five industry executives, an academic and an engineer testified on their views for and ...

“The Patent Reform Act of 2009 will strengthen American innovation, improve America’s global competitiveness, and create more high-tech jobs in America.” ...

Provides significant legal reforms to the patent system that include inequitable conduct, damages, venue, etc. HR 1260- Patent Reform Act of 2009- A bill to provide significant legal reforms to the ...

The legislation, introduced in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, is very similar to the Patent Reform Act of 2007, which died on the Senate floor last year. If passed, the 2009 version would change the way ...

S. 515 Patent Reform Act of 2009; entire bill, H.R. 1260 Patent Reform Act of 2009; entire bill. H.R. 628 To establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement ...