The Patent Reform Act of 2009

In another attempt at reforming the U.S. patent system, leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees recently introduced bipartisan patent reform legislation aimed at making "needed updates to the system which will improve patent quality and increase certainty among parties in litigation."

The proposed legislation, which is touted by lawmakers as the most significant reform of the U.S. patent system in 50 years, picks up where patent reforms left off in previous years. And it includes some contentious provisions also present in earlier versions of the legislation that never emerged from Congress.

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