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3 Aug 2022, 9:15 am by Eileen McDermott
This morning, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022, S.4734, which would amend the U.S. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 12:15 pm by Gene Quinn
Hannon in a recent law review article seen by Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), who promptly sent a letter to United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Andrei Iancu demanding answers. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 2:48 pm by Rebecca Tapscott
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property released a discussion draft copyright reform bill titled the 'Digital Copyright Act of 2021' (the discussion draft). [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 3:38 pm by Eileen McDermott
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held its last hearing of the year on reforms to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) today, three days before Subcommittee Chairman Thom Tillis (R-NC) is set to release a discussion draft of a DMCA reform bill he has said will contain “revolutionary changes to online copyright law. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 7:55 am by Patent Docs
By Michael Borella -- Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina has released a new proposal to reform the text of 35 U.S.C. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 1:15 pm by IPWatchdog
In their latest letter weighing in on intellectual property issues, Senators Thom Tillis and Chris Coons have expressed their concerns about the effects of “serial” inter partes review (IPR) petitions on the U.S. patent system.In March, the senators sent a letter to Karyn Temple, Register of Copyrights, to ask a series of questions about the Copyright Office’s ability to handle the likely impact of Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 7:02 am by Gene Quinn
Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Senate IP Subcommittee, released the first draft of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022, which if enacted would, at a minimum, overrule the Supreme Court’s decisions in Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 7:02 am by Gene Quinn
Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Senate IP Subcommittee, released the first draft of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022, which if enacted would, at a minimum, overrule the Supreme Court’s decisions in Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. [read post]
29 Apr 2021, 10:15 am by IPWatchdog
Hirono (D-HI), Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Congressman Steve Stivers (R-OH) reintroduced the... [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 9:27 am by IPWatchdog
Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have introduced a bill titled the Protecting America from Spies Act, which targets individuals who have committed or may in the future commit U.S. intellectual property theft. [read post]
7 Mar 2021, 9:14 pm by Patent Docs
Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter to President Biden regarding the selection of the next Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. [read post]
10 Mar 2021, 4:15 am by Eileen McDermott
Hirono (D-HI), Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Congressman Steve Stivers (R-OH) yesterday reintroduced the Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement Act (IDEA Act), which seeks to direct the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) “to collect demographic data – including gender, race, military or veteran status, and income level, among others – from patent applicants on a voluntary basis. [read post]
2 Aug 2022, 2:53 pm by Eileen McDermott
Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) today announced the introduction of the Patent Examination and Quality Improvement Act of 2022, which is aimed at “evaluat[ing] and improv[ing] the patent examination process and the overall quality of patents issued by the USPTO,” according to a press release. [read post]
30 May 2014, 9:34 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
” This paper makes an argument against Thom Brooks’ characterization of the natural law tradition’s concept of justice as “external” to the law, in contrast with Hegel’s peculiar “internalist” conception of natural law. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 9:25 pm by Patent Docs
Noonan -- With great fanfare (and a seeming exercise of appropriate diligence), Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), chair and ranking member of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary committee, over the past few weeks have held a series of public hearings on the subject of legislative intervention to reform patent eligibility law rendered somewhat askew by several recent Supreme Court decisions (and, to be fair, how those decisions have been… [read post]
2 Jun 2022, 9:15 am by Eileen McDermott
Following a late April request by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI)  to then newly-confirmed United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal asking her to respond to a number of questions surrounding abuse of the inter partes review (IPR) system, Vidal last week sent a letter explaining she is working on the problem. [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 4:15 am by Wen Xie
Proffered by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) in the interest of expediting patent prosecution for those applications that receive Section 101 rejections, under the new Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility (DSMER) program, eligible applicants who receive a subject matter eligibility rejection with prior art rejection(s) or indefiniteness rejection(s) can defer substantively responding to the Section 101 rejection until all other rejections have been withdrawn. [read post]