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Pay-For-Delay Provision Added to Senate Appropriations Bill

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee managed to accomplish something that the Senate as a whole could not: pass an appropriations bill containing a pay-for delay (or reverse payment) provision. Only one week earlier, the Senate had voted in favor of the House "2010 Supplemental Appropriations Act" (H.R. 4899), but not before stripping the bill of a provision that would have allowed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to "initiate a proceeding . . . against the parties to any agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).