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New Patent Litigation Reform Bills Introduced
As of this writing, several patent litigation reform bills are pending in the Senate and the House. On Oct. 24, 2013, House Judiciary Chairman Goodlatte introduced his Innovation Act, H.R. 3309, and a substitute bill on November 18. On Oct. 30, 2013, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Hatch introduced Patent Litigation Integrity Act, S.1612. And on Nov. 18, 2013, Hatch and two co-sponsors introduced another patent litigation reform bill, the “Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013,” S. 1720.'The stated goal of these and the other litigation reform bills that have been introduced this year is to counter abusive litigation practices by so-called “non-practicing entities” (NPEs, also called “patent assertion entities,” or “trolls”) ' companies that own patents but do not manufacture or sell the patented products or services, using instead the patents' power to exclude others to obtain royalty payments from companies practicing the patented inventions.
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