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Patent reform now unlikely in 2008: scheduled vote in the U.S. Senate is withdrawn.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 26-MAY-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Patent reform now unlikely in 2008: scheduled vote in the U.S. Senate is withdrawn.(patent reform act of 2009 )

Article Excerpt
The most sweeping effort to reform the U.S. patent system in 50 years will have to wait a little longer.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., withdrew a vote on the bill from the calendar May 2, essentially postponing it until 2009, analysts said.

Local patent attorneys and leaders in the biotechnology, high-tech, pharmaceutical and medical device industries have monitored the legislation's progress, known as the Patent Reform Act of 2007, since first introduced last April.

Put simply, the patent reform bill would make patents...

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