Intellectual Property
May 20, 2006
Court Tackles Patent Reform, Pulling Law Toward Mainstream
Focus Column - By Sarah M. King - This week, in eBay v. MercExchange, the Supreme Court stepped definitively into the patent reform fray. For years now, Congress has debated legislation to reform the ailing U.S. patent system. Patent applications now number in the hundreds of thousands each year, partly as a result of the nation's increasing dependence upon complex technology and partly because of an expansion in the scope of inventions now deemed patentable.
By Sarah M. King
This week, in eBay v. MercExchange, the Supreme Court stepped definitively into the patent reform fray. For years now, Congress has debated legislation to reform the ailing U.S. patent system. Patent applications now number in the hundreds of thousands each year, partly as a result of the nation's increasing dependence upon complex technology and par...
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