BLOG@IP::JUR

Patent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.

Disclaimer & About This Website

Visit the archives

Saturday, May 07, 2005

U.S. Patent Reform Bill 2005.

Mr. J. Matthew Buchanan of the

"Promote the Progress" legal blog ("Blawg") has prepared

a page with an overview of various materials on the pending

U.S. Patent Reform.

The 2005 Patent Reform Bill might perhaps bring most dramatic changes to the U.S. patent system including a change from the first-to-invent doctrine to the first-to-file doctrine already adopted by the rest of the world, cf. also

this opinion here. Also the introduction of a post-grant Opposition procedure into U.S. patent law is discussed. A review period of nine to 12 months would let the patent office, instead of the courts, address complaints converning the validity of a patent.

[Permalink]