U.S. Supreme Court
Jun. 29, 2016
Patent reform increasingly risks deadlock
An increasingly fractured community is one force stopping patent reform, and much of the debate has been increasingly driven by public pressure rather than academic and industry discourse. By Andrew C. Whitney, Jacob J.O. Minne and Ehsun Forghany
For the past decade, intellectual property legislation was a bright spot for a congress otherwise mired in partisan gridlock. In 2011, Democrats and Republicans in Congress united to pass the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). And just this past May, President Barack Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act, which modernizes and strengthens trade secret law by adding new f...
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