On October 21, 2009, several U.S. Senators introduced a proposed federal “Elder Abuse Victims Act (S. 1821)” as a “companion” Senate bill to one adopted earlier this year by a vote of 397 to 25 in the House, known as the Elder Abuse Victims Behave (H.R. 448), introduced by Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA). It appears [...]
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Global Online Effort To Ascertain Validity of Patents
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By Eric Sinrod
Whether a particular patent is valid has potentially far-reaching implications. Novelty or newness is the basic underpinning of every invention that leads to a patent.
After a patent has been granted, parties may seek to defeat its validity in litigation by arguing that the patented subject matter was not novel at the time of [...]
