The Patent Reform Act of 2009 introduced by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D- Vt., is working its way through the Senate after failing to gain approval in either 2005 or 2007. But despite what some claim is ...

The era of the digital machine in human history -- an era which has only spanned the interval of our own lifetimes, if that long -- has seen the difference between a concept and a mechanism narrowed ...

Has the US Congress found a way through competing interests to develop patent reform proposals that will satisfy everyone? Unfortunately, the answer appears to be a frustrating "not yet". Last month, ...

Congress has spent the past five years in an ongoing effort to reform the patent system. Reform proposals have come and gone; the debates between proponents and opponents of various amendments have ...