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Chairman Leahy Announces "Tentative Agreement in Principle" on Patent Reform Bill

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

By Donald Zuhn -- During an Executive Business Meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee held earlier today, Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) informed attendees and online viewers that the Committee had reached a "tentative agreement in principle" regarding patent reform legislation. Chairman Leahy (at right) noted that the agreement preserves the "core of the compromise" struck in Committee last spring that permitted the Senate bill (S. 515) to be voted out of Committee (see "Senate 'Patent Reform' Bill (S. 515) Voted out of Judiciary Committee"). In a meeting that was somewhat shortened by the President's Bipartisan Meeting on Health Reform, Chairman...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).