Intellectual Property,
Government
Jun. 12, 2019
Patent bill should focus on stabilizing law, not wiping out precedent
Congress must appreciate and accommodate the reality of our constitutional system. As scattered as the current case law may be with respect to patent eligibility, it is carefully crafted and borne of mostly defensible articulations of public policy.
Daniel N. Yannuzzi
Partner
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Email: dyannuzzi@sheppardmullin.com
Daniel is a co-chair of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Intellectual Property Practice Group and has more than 25 years of experience in strategic portfolio development and counseling, patent prosecution, patent appeals and inter partes reviews. Dan is a former NASA engineer who also served as VP, chief intellectual property counsel to a multi-billion dollar semiconductor company.
On June 4-5, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held hearings to explore the potential effect of draft changes to 35 U.S.C. Sections 100, 101 and 112 proposed by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) -- the respective chair and ranking member of the subcommittee -- and supported by Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Steve Stivers (R-Ohio). A third hearing on the draft changes recently took place on Tu...
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