David B. Cochran

The 2011 Patent Reform Act
David B. Cochran,Thomas E. Friebel,Anthony M. Insogna,Ognjan V. Shentov,Peter G. Thurlow, September 22, 2011
The most significant changes to the U.S. patent law in more than 50 years have finally come to pass. The practice of U.S. patent law will never be the same. It took more than six years of Congressional debate for the U.S. Senate to pass the House version of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act...

S. 23: The U.S. Senate’s Patent Reform Bill
David B. Cochran,Thomas E. Friebel,Peter G. Thurlow, March 28, 2011
On March 8, 2011, by a vote of 95-5, the U.S. Senate passed S. 23, the Senate’s most recent attempt at patent reform. The bill, known as the "America Invents Act," represents the first time in six years of work on patent reform that the Senate has actually passed a patent reform...