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USPTO management and workers AGREE: S.1145 on patent reform is flawed

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Senators should note that both the USPTO administration AND the USPTO examiners' union [POPA] are opposing the current patent reform bill and thus senators should figure out that something is still wrong with the bill.

Of the union, ag-ip noted on 10 Feb:

The Patent Office Professional Association (POPA) has joined several other major labor unions in opposition to the Patent Reform Act of 2007, S. 1145. According to a press release by POPA, the coalition of unions sent a letter to every US Senator. In addition, POPA has signed with over 485 other corporations, associations and unions in a full page advertisement that ran in the newspaper Roll Call when the Senate went back in session.

Of the Bush administration and of the USPTO, Bioworld had noted:

The Bush administration in a six-page "views" letter to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, outlined its objections to a patent reform bill awaiting Senate approval.

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While the administration supports legislation that would improve the patent system, the current version of S. 1145 "does not do that," insisted Jon Dudas, under secretary of commerce for intellectual property at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

"In some ways, it undermines innovation, particularly in the damages provision," he asserted during a Feb. 5 media briefing.

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Is patent reform going forward, or not?

Full post as published by IPBiz on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).