Posts Tagged: senate
Business interests and consumer concerns clash at Senate hearing on FCC’s broadband privacy rules
On the morning of Tuesday, July 12th, members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation convened for a hearing on a notice of proposed …
A Good Opportunity to Reframe the Patent Reform Debate
Corrosive changes in patent law are undermining research university commercialization of patented, federally-funded basic research, endangering our nation’s innovation ecosystem. Mounting uncertainty repels private investment needed …
A Legislative History of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016
Legislative history is, of course, the compilation of the legislative process’ source documents—committee reports, hearing transcripts, bills and floor debate—to understand the Congressional intent behind …
Appropriately Crafted Federal Trade Secrets Legislation Will Promote Competition and Economic Welfare
Trade secrets are the only major type of intellectual property (IP) that is not backed by U.S. federal civil remedies to compensate owners for theft. Notably, …
Defend Trade Secrets Act Adopted by Senate
In today’s political climate, any bipartisan legislative action is, well, unusual. Unanimous votes are like unicorns. But one happened yesterday, as the Senate voted 87-0 to …
Institutional Challenges to a Reliable Patent Regime for Inventors
What we can, and should, address are institutional challenges. Regrettably, our institutional approach to patents has only further challenged small business and diminished innovation. Those challenges come …
The Patent System: It is important for America that we get it right
Small businesses and independent inventors are critical to revolutionary advancement of American technology. They file over 20% of the applications at the USPTO, and their patents are more …
Patent Reform at all Costs: Desperate reformer resorts to lies
It is pure nonsense to say that opponents of patent reform never offer specifics, cite or discuss textual language of the bills. Utter fiction and complete fantasy. …
Patent Reform in 2016, Maybe Not as Dead as you Think
As interesting as the Senate may become when patent reform resurfaces, the dynamic in the House will be fascinating for many reasons. Since patent reform stalled there …
Senator Grassley talks about patent reform at Iowa town halls
The first meeting this week was in Grundy Center, IA, during which a question about patent reform was asked. Grassley answered that he was trying to stop …
Defend Trade Secrets Act ready for markup in Senate Judiciary Committee
Earlier today the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Defend Trade Secrets Act, which is authored by U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Orrin …
Misleading patent troll narrative driven by anecdote, not facts
''An anecdote is a snapshot, a one-dimensional shard of the big picture. It is lacking in scale, perspective, and data,'' authors Steven Levitt and Stephan Dubner …
A fear of trade secret trolls is completely unfounded
Fears about trade secret trolls are based in mythology, not on fact. If those claiming federal trade secret legislation would lead to trade secret trolls actually understand …
Patent Reform riddled with intended, unintended, and unknown consequences
Most Congressional offices now understand how loser-pay, bonding and joinder stops the flow of capital to innovation startups, how customer stays make defending patent rights impossibly difficult, …
Innovation Act delayed in House amid bipartisan bicameral disapproval
Members of both major American political parties from both the Senate and the House of Representatives came together at a press conference held on the afternoon of …
