Patent Reform Act of 2007 - Update (Part 6)
In an earlier post this week--Seagate vs. Patent Reform Act of 2007--I included a link to R. David Donoghue's Chicago IP Litigation Blog and his post "Is the Patent Reform Act Stalled?" David may have been onto something, as only a day later blogger Dennis Crouch reported in his post "Congressional Patent Reform is Dead; Long Live Adminstrative Patent Reform" that Congressional Republicans have asked Speaker Pelosi to put the brakes on patent reform legislation. In their letter to Pelosi (D-CA) dated August 30, 2007, available here, Representatives Boenner (R-OH) and Blunt (R-MO) asked for the reprieve to allow additional consensus building "so that all U.S. companies benefit from reforming the patent system rather than advantaging one business model over another."
Comments:
- The introduced Senate and House versions of patent reform legislation are: S.1145 and H.R.1908, respectively
- A search of the Internet revealed Patent Reform Acts of 2005, 2006, and 2007; perhaps we should start looking forward to the 2008 or 2009 versions
- The Pelosi letter was copied to Representatives Conyers (D-MI), L. Smith (R-TX), Berman (D-CA), and Coble (R-NC), all members of the House Judiciary Committee (Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property)
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