False Patent Marking Litigation and Legislation

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime prevention.

Judge-made law.

Patents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2011

Summary:

Describes and analyzes 2009 Federal circuit court decision requiring a per-article penalty for false patent marking, and reviews two subsequent Federal circuit decisions in 2010 that respond to several questions that arose during recent false patent marking litigation. Examines legislation that was introduced in the 112th Congress to amended the Patent Act to retroactively end qui tam false marking suits and reduced the number of false marking suits filed in the future

Notes:

CRS Report

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Other Format:

Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division. False Patent Marking

Publisher Number:

CRS-2011-AML-0061

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