“Whether or not one gets a patent or that patent survives in court should not depend on which patent examiner your case is assigned to, or what judge you appear in front of."
“If we are regularly seeing such levels of inconsistency, then we have an area where the jurisprudence is insufficiently clear, and which may necessitate congressional action to provide clarity and consistency.”
WILMINGTON, Del. – In case you missed it, IPWatchdog published a blog post based on a speech that U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, gave in December at a conference entitled “The Supreme Court’s Section 101 Jurisprudence: Dangers for the Innovation Economy.” In the speech, Senator Coons discussed how increasing uncertainty in the law over what inventions may receive patent protection is hurting small businesses and the medical and software industries in Delaware and around the country.
Full post available here.
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