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16 Feb 2011, 11:31 am by Doug
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the committee’s chairman, invited a Google, Verizon and The Authors Guild and other companies with a stake in the online copyright fight to appear to give their views about legislation Leahy is preparing to reintroduce in the Senate this year. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 9:50 am by Joe Mullin
Patrick Leahy in letters addressed to the CEOs of MasterCard and Visa. 29 of the 30 sites accept Visa and MasterCard, and some of them bear the credit companies' logos, which "lends the sites a harmful imprimatur of legitimacy," stated Leahy. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 4:11 pm by David Kravets
Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) remains stalled for lack of GOP support. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 11:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senators Thom Tillis and Patrick Leahy ask the USPTO’s Drew Hirshfeld what the agency will do to enforce patent disclosure requirements at other federal agencies on patent applicants; the Fifth Circuit affirms sovereign immunity for Texas A&M’s athletic department but nixes a qualified immunity defense for a media relations director involved in unauthorized online republication of a copyrighted book excerpt; Judge Lucy Koh is… [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 6:37 pm
Patrick Leahy in a letter to President Obama Tuesday, warning that the proposed patent reforms in recent years would hurt manufacturers by weakening patent protection. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 2:52 pm
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) doesn't want to give up his DNS-based Interent blacklisting plans—but he's willing to put them on hold. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 8:45 am by Joe Palazzolo
Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.): The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin debate on legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act on Nov. 3. [read post]
9 Apr 2008, 3:02 pm
Patrick Leahy, Senate Judiciary Committee chair, "reserved the Senate television studio for a news conference two days in a row this week, only to cancel both times. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 9:59 pm by Patent Docs
Noonan -- On Tuesday, for the second day in a row, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (at right) stood on the floor of the Senate and argued for his colleagues to pass S. 23, now named the "Invent America Act. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 9:59 pm by Patent Docs
By Donald Zuhn -- It took almost six years for Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to get a patent reform bill to the floor of the Senate for a vote. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 7:07 am
Yesterday, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) "introduced legislation to hold violators of food safety standards accountable for their crimes" by strengthening "criminal penalties for food safety violators. [read post]
22 Jan 2007, 6:20 pm
After being grilled last week by Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. [read post]
30 Oct 2011, 5:51 pm
Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced legislation to make the fraudulent sale of maple syrup a felony offense. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 12:33 am
O'CONNOR MEMBER STATEMENTS THE HONORABLE PATRICK LEAHY Also available as a webcast. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 1:18 pm
Some excerpts:***In introducing their bill on Guantánamo Bay detentions earlier this year, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and ranking member Arlen Specter announced that they intended it--in Leahy's grand words--"to restore the Great Writ of habeas corpus, a cornerstone of American liberty since the founding of this Nation. [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 1:30 pm
Patrick Leahy and the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing today on the creation of a Truth Commission to investigate the Bush Adminisration's policies on surveillance, detention, etc. [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 7:44 am
Media reports indicate that Senator Patrick Leahy’s (D-VT) amendment to repeal the antitrust exemption under the McCarran-Ferguson Act for health insurers and medical mal practice insurers, last discussed here, has been removed from the latest version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590).According to industry sources, the decision to not include Senator Leahy’s amendment was made to secure the support of Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE), a… [read post]