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PUBPAT Expresses "Deep Concern" over Senate False Marking Provision

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, in a letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) Executive Director Daniel Ravicher expressed "deep concern" over the Committee's addition of a provision to the Senate patent reform bill (S. 515) that would eliminate qui tam false patent marking suits. Earlier this month, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a Manager's Amendment for S. 515 that would only allow "[a] person who has suffered a competitive injury as a result of a [patent marking] violation [to] file a civil action in a district...

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