House of Representatives Passes Patent Reform Legislation
The House of Representatives today voted to pass H.R.1908, which is entitled the "Patent Reform Act of 2007." The final vote, covered live by C-SPAN this afternoon, was 220 in favor of passage, 175 against. The House Report 110-319 can be found here, and includes several Amendments not included in the introduced version of the bill.
Comments:
- Attention now turns to the Senate to see if patent reform will finally see passage in Congress after three years of debate
- To illustrate how divisive patent reform has become, one Representative called H.R.1908 the "Steal America's Inventions Act" during the debate
