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Senate Passes S. 23

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Senate voted today in favor of S. 23, the "American Invents Act," aka the Patent Reform Act of 2011. The vote was 95-5, with Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), John Ensign (R-NV), and James Risch (R-ID) voting against. The version of the bill that passed the Senate is a far cry from the many earlier versions of the bill, from this and previous Congresses, and contains provisions that may affect the following aspects of patent law: ? First inventor to file (Sec. 2) ? Inventor's oath and declaration (Sec....

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).