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DOJ, FTC and USPTO to Hold Workshop about Promoting Innovation

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

By Sarah Fendrick -- The Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and U.S Patent and Trademark Office have announced that they will be holding a joint public workshop on the intersection of patent policy and competition policy and its implications for promoting innovation. The workshop will be held on May 26, 2010 and is open to the public. The topics to be discussed at the workshop include how challenges posed by the patent backlog affect the competitive strategies of patent applicants and innovators, the impact of the Supreme Court's 2006 opinion in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange L.L.C. on permanent injunctions...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on May 21, 2010 (boomark / email).