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Senator Leahy: "Time Is Now" for Patent Reform

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

By Donald Zuhn -- On Saturday, in response to an Op-Ed piece published in The New York Times two weeks ago ("Inventing a Better Patent System"), the Times published five letters, including one from patent reform's biggest proponent, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee ("A Fresh Look at Patents and Innovation"). In the original Op-Ed article, Robert Pozen (at right), the chairman of MFS Investment Management and a Harvard senior lecturer, wrote that while Congress has been debating patent reform legislation since 2005, "a fierce fight involving the high-tech and drug industries on a technical...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).