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Senate Patent Reform Legislation -- One Old Bill and One New Bill

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Last Tuesday, CongressDaily reported that Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (at right) and ranking member Arlen Specter (R-PA) have indicated that patent reform will be a top priority for the new session. Coalition for Patent Fairness lobbyist Steve Elmendorf told the publication that he expects to begin working in earnest early next year to help push the Senate bill through, and predicted that it was "highly probable" that a bill would pass in the 111th Congress, given the Democratic leadership's support of the House bill, which passed in September 2007. However, CongressDaily also noted that...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on August 12, 2008 (boomark / email).