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The Phoenix That Is S. 515

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- "Politics," according to Otto von Bismarck, "is the art of the possible." And thus it is possible that a patent reform bill will, against all odds, be passed by this session of Congress. But that is only if Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (at right) is successful in sneaking the bill into the Small Business Loan Funding bill (H.R. 5297) to be considered in the next few days. By using this parliamentary maneuver, the Senator no doubt hopes to avoid any close scrutiny of a bill that resembles a horse designed by a committee (aka, a...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 14, 2010 (boomark / email).