Intellectual Property
Mar. 10, 2011
Senate Passes Stripped-Down Patent Bill
After years of legislative deadlock, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would make significant changes in the country's patent system for the first time in decades. The legislation now moves to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
After years of legislative gridlock, the U.S. Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make significant changes in the nation's patent system for the first time in decades.
The bill, stripped of some of its most controversial provisions regarding damages for patent infringement and less ambitious as a result, sailed through the Senate by a 95-5 margin. But the U.S. House of Representatives has ye...
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