Fueled by an agreement between the competing camps, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted last week to pass the Patent Reform Act of 2009 to the full Senate for debate. The Committee adopted a manager’s amendment that embodies the changes required by the agreement.
A .pdf redline version of the bill, as amended and passed by the Committee, is available here.
The significance of the agreement between the camps cannot be understated. Insider Hal Wegner has called it “historic” and sees the resulting changes as producing a “margin of support…so great that it appears, at least at present, as though the difficult cloture obstacle will be surmounted.” (emphasis Hal’s).
Related posts:
- Patent Reform Act of 2009, as reported by Senate Judiciary Committee
- Senate Judiciary Committee passes Patent Reform Act of 2009 to Senate floor
- Patent Reform Act of 2009, from the hip
- Two reasons why the Patent Reform Act of 2009 is going nowhere….for now
- Senate amendments to the Patent Reform Act of 2009