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Congress Tries To Move Ahead On Patent Reform - Again
As we have reported in the past, Congress has been taking up patent reform legislation in fits and starts. Although committees in both the House and Senate have considered a number of bills that would make changes in the patent laws that range from inconsequential to potentially radical, nothing yet has made it out of committee...

Patent Reform Is Still Alive And Moving - Sort Of
Last fall, we reported on Congress? ambitious efforts to reform the U.S. patent system with the introduction of several versions of patent reform legislation. At that time, the proposed legislation contained several measures that put prominent groups ? in particular the biotech industry and the information technology industry ? at odds with one another...

What might have been in patent reform
In a post titled --Patent reforms can shift research --, one has the text:Congress has a unique opportunity to help the millions of Americans afflicted by neglected diseases. The Patent Reform Act, now being considered in the Senate, could rework the national patent system to encourage breakthrough treatments for many chronic conditions that too often go unaddressed by drug makers...

Patent Reform, PDQ!
With the Supreme Court's present interest in patent law , and while the automatic entering of a permanent injunction following infringement is still waiting for a decision in eBay v...

A broad consensus, one way or another
The Washington Post had an article mentioning several of the possible takes on whether patent reform will proceed, or not,in early 2008.There was a quote from the Coalition for Patent Fairness:Senators, representatives of the Bush administration and other interested parties have been meeting regularly "to find balanced solutions on all the issues," said Mark Isakowitz, spokesman for the Coalition for Patent Fairness, a group representing several large tech companies...

More Skirmishing On Patent Reform
The problem facing Congress as it attempts to craft patent reform legislation became starkly apparent again in hearings held this week by the Senate Judiciary Committee?s Sub-Committee on Intellectual Property...

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Texas, USA
alleging the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates several provisions of the Constitution.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.

Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment

Qualcomm Settles Patent Suit for $891 Million