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Patent Reform Efforts Opposed by Small Business Group

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Until now, the major bones of contention over the Senate's patent "reform" bill (S. 515) have centered around two provisions: putting in place statutory language governing how damages are to be assessed, and instituting of a post-grant review system modeled on the European opposition, and that will be more extensive than current re-examinations. These provisions have been the motivating force for a variety of "high-tech" companies (predominantly information technology companies like Cisco and Intel) and their lobbying arms (such as the Coalition for Patent Fairness (sic)), aimed at addressing unconscionable damages verdicts (typically but not...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).