The Main Street Patent Coalition urged the Senate...
The Main Street Patent Coalition urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to move forward with its planned markup of the Patent Transparency and Improvements Act (S-1720), which has been repeatedly delayed amid stalled negotiations over creation of a compromise version of…
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the bill. “Congress has come too far to leave this problem unsolved,” wrote the pro-patent revamp group Monday to committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. “Delay in enacting reforms simply empowers patent trolls and permits even greater harm to Main Street businesses and our economy” (http://bit.ly/1sFxOQt), the letter said. The coalition said it continues to support a compromise drafted by Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that emerged in April (CD April 28 p10). The committee’s schedule for this week does not list a planned markup of S-1720, the first time in weeks it has not been on the agenda.