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Senator Landrieu Introduces Legislation Requiring Study on Effects of First-to-File Provision

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

By Donald Zuhn -- On Tuesday, Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) introduced legislation (S. 3089) that would require the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to conduct a study and report on the effects of changes to U.S. patent law that would result from enactment of the Patent Reform Act of 2009. In particular, Senator Landrieu's bill would require the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the SBA to conduct a study of the effects on small business concerns of changing from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file invention priority system, including how the change would affect the ability of...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 11, 2010 (boomark / email).