Hi there, and Happy November, readers! Here’s this week’s patent news:
On Monday, CCIA and more than two dozen other associations sent a letter to Judiciary Committee leadership in support of making the Covered Business Method Program more widely available.
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Innovation Act, which was introduced last week by Rep. Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and ten other Representatives. I live-tweeted the hearing on @PatentProgress. If you scan our feed, or the hashtags #fixpatents, #patentreform, and #InnovationAct, you’ll get a good idea of what was raised by members and witnesses.
Video from Matt Levy’s appearance on a TPI panel last week with Professor Michael Meurer, Professor John Duffy, and Peter Detkin of Intellectual VenturesThe largest patent aggregator, currently holding around 40,000 patents. Closely associated with co-founder Nathan Myhrvold. IV is often viewed as a patent assertion entity, although much of its activities are conducted through spinoffs, and the company is at least nominally in the business of producing inventions in-house. See our posts on Intellectual Ventures. is now available. He will also be speaking about non-practicing entities and patent reform at American University Washington College of Law’s Patent+Policy Forum next Friday.
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