Patent Reform Act of 2007

Bayh-Doyle Act of 1980 that allowed the government to exercise “march-in rights”. The next milestone bill was the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011, or the “Patent Reform Act”, which regulates patents of all industries and “represents the first major legislative adjustment to the U.S. patent system in decades” (Dobson). This demonstrates the symbolic purpose of this bill of bringing hope to

The Patent Reform Act INTRODUCTION The USPTO has been unable to keep up with its workload, resulting in major delays. There have also been questions about patent quality and increased litigation. The last time the patent system was updated was more than 50 years ago. Since then, there have been major improvements in science and technology. Recent Supreme Court decisions have made it clear that it has been easy for questionable patents to be obtained and difficult to challenge them. However

power to issue patents and copyrights in order “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries” (U.S. Const. art. I, § 8). A patent provides the inventor with an exclusive right to “use, license or sell and invention,” (U.S. Const. art. I, § 8), as such the product, service, process or design becomes the personal property of the inventor(s). The Patent Act of 1793 redefined

Invents Act, passed on September 16, 2011, was the most significant reform to the patent system in the United States since the Patent Act of 1952, which redefined the patentability of patent to include being nonobvious in addition to new and useful (1). The demanding need for patent reform had been discussed and debated frequently both within the literature focusing on patent trolls and consistently in Congress with the introduction of many patent reform acts that were never enacted: the Patent Reform

broad term that is used to refer to the rights that the owner of an invention or an artwork enjoys. An example of intellectual property law is the Trade Related Aspect of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), which gives individual rights such as patent, designs, and trademark. Intellectual property is contained in the Article 2(viii) of the convention, which led the establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Literary works, inventions, discoveries, trademarks, and industrial

a result, India began to conduct a relatively free liberal market reform. Nonetheless, because of the interests of coalition government members are dissimilar, the speed of market reform is limited (Business Asia, 2010:10). Economic Analysis India’s economy is the fourth largest GDP in terms of purchasing power parity (Gupta and Gupta, 2008:68). Table 1: The Growth of GDP in India from 2003-2008 From 2003-2004 to 2006-2007, annual Real Growth Rate increases from 8.4% to 9.7%. Because of

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and much of it is still in public debate today. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, three of the presidents from that era, all played roles in the groundwork. These presidents passed acts, tariffs, and amendments that are still with us, and debated today. The Progressive mind was run by the needs for reform. Reform was run mainly by women, who started feminism; a term meaning freedom for full person development. Women wanted to have the same rights as men. Women wanted the right to vote, and

deported as soon as their legal status is detected. Most people and the left wing of government, which contains Liberals and Democrats, believe that illegal immigrants already in the country should be given a path to citizenship alongside immigration reform: The National Immigration Forum advocates the creation of a "rigorous registration process" for illegal immigrants currently in the United States. Most Americans and American officials are of the opinion that illegal immigration is bad for the country

knowledge economy. Intellectual property typically covers the areas of Copyright, Patents and trademark law. In recent years, firms have chosen to protect software based patents commonly used in smartphones. The use of patents to protect software-based technologies has increased exponentially in the past 10 years since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 by Apple. Empirically, there is no clear correlation between patent protection and economic growth (Iwaisako and Futagami). However companies are