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Big news this week!  On Wednesday evening, the House Judiciary Committee passed the Innovation Act by a 33-5 vote.  Matt Levy wrote a post explaining what’s in it (and what’s not), and wh...

Hi!  Patent reform continues to progress.  Yesterday the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing on The Impact of Patent Assertion En...

Lots of support from venture capitalists (VCs) this week on patent reform!  And that makes sense, because VCs have the power and resources to invest in startups, and they don’t want the risk of pat...

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 ma...

It was a fairly quiet week in patents.  Last Friday, Matt wrote about a confusing new Federal Circuit opinion in order to demonstrate how difficult it can be to understand patent law.  And earlier t...

As even our non-U.S. readers must know, the U.S. government is currently in a partial shutdown.  On the first day of the shutdown, Matt Levy explained what it means for patents, from the PTO to the I...

This week Rep. Goodlatte released a discussion draft of patent legislation, which has a lot of potential to help #fixpatents.  Matt was quoted in The Hill earlier this week on the draft, where he and...

This week, Senator Leahy and Senator Lee had an op-ed on the need for reform to counteract abuse of the patent system, and they explained that Congress is making progress on bipartisan, bicameral legi...