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, ...

Leaders in Congress are making a third effort to pass the Patent Reform Act, even though divisions remain over significant portions of the legislation. ... March 3, 2009 1:55 p.m. PT.

The US Senate has been considering some major changes to the US patent system, but opposition to some provisions in the complex legislation has apparently derailed the effort, at least temporarily ...

The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say ...

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 ...

Legislation that could bring a major overhaul to U.S. patent law — and perhaps prompt inventors to publish new findings earlier to preserve their intellectual-property rights — has been ...

The House Committee on the Judiciary yesterday approved far-reaching legislation to reform the nation’s patent system. The Patent Reform Act of 2007 largely reflects the IT sector’s lobbying ...

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, ...

Patent reform has been a topic of congressional debate since the introduction of the Patent Reform Act of 2005. Having failed to enact the 2005 legislation or any subsequently proposed reform, ...

In contrast, the STRONG Patents Act is a concrete piece of legislation they can point to that serves as an alternative to Rep. Goodlatte's vision for patent reform.

In his July 12 commentary "Patent Nonsense," Bruce Sewell, general counsel of Intel, paints a dire picture of the United States patent system in broad strokes with little supporting data as he ...