Patent Reform and Small Entities — NAPP
May 10, 2005 on 1:35 pm | In Legislation/Regulation |The National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) have posted their comments to the Patent Reform proposal. The NAPP appears to oppose the provisions relating to: “first to file†priority; broadened claim scope; universal 18-month publication; inter partes reexamination estoppel; damages limitations to components; tangible component requirement (overruling the case of Microsoft v. Eolas); and elimination of the joint research exception.
A copy (MS Word) of their comments can be found here: http://www.napp.org/resources/Comments%20-%20NAPP%202005%20patent%20bill.doc
I converted it to PDF for you: http://nip.blogs.com/patent/files/NAPP.comments.pdf
This resource will be added to my forthcoming “Everything Small Entities Need to Know about Patent Reform†(or whatever I call it) page. If you know of other documents, webpages, etc. that should be likewise linked to…let me know.
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