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Patent Reform Act Of 2007
The Patent Reform Act of 2007 (, ) was a bill introduced in the 110th United States Congress to introduce changes in United States patent law. Democratic Congressman Howard Berman introduced the House of Representatives bill on April 18, 2007. Democratic Party Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the Senate bill on April 18, 2007. The bill passed the house but died in the Senate. The bills broadly resembled the proposed Patent Reform Act of 2005 which would have enacted many of the proposals recommended by a 2003 report by the Federal Trade Commission and a 2004 report by the National Academy of Sciences. Similar acts were introduced as the Patent Reform Act of 2009 in the 111th Congress and as the America Invents Act in the 112th. Proposed changes in U.S. patent law In certain respects, H.R. 1908 and S. 1145 would have made American patent law more similar to patent laws of many other countries. H.R. 1908 proposed the following changes in U.S. patent law: Switch from first t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill (law)
A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature. A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature as well as, in most cases, approved by the executive. Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an '' act of the legislature'', or a ''statute''. Bills are introduced in the legislature and are discussed, debated and voted upon. Usage The word ''bill'' is primarily used in Anglophone United Kingdom and United States, the parts of a bill are known as ''clauses'', until it has become an act of parliament, from which time the parts of the law are known as ''sections''. In Napoleonic law nations (including France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Portugal), a proposed law may be known as a "law project" (Fr. ''projet de loi''), which is a government-introduced bill, or a "law proposition" (Fr. ''proposition de loi''), a private member's bill. For example the Dutch parliamentary system does not make this terminological distinction (''wetsontwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DataTreasury
DataTreasury, located in Plano, Texas, United States, develops, acquires and licenses technology for secure check image capture and storage. As of 2010 the company had 2 employees, about 1000 shareholders and had generated over $350 million in licensing revenue in the previous four years. The company has a patent portfolio relating to these technologies, which it enforces. Several banks have settled, and in 2010 U.S. Bank, Viewpointe (a company set up by some major banks and I.B.M. to store and retrieve digital images of checks for large banks) Clearing House Payments Company and its subsidiary, SVPCo, were found guilty of infringing DataTreasury's patents.Dan Browning for the Minneapolis StarTribune February 24, 2010.Banking dispute involving U.S. Bank is going to 3 trialsRobin R. Richardson and DD Turner for marshallnewsmessenger.com, March 26, 2010/ref> There has been controversy concerning the company. In 2004, ''The New York Times'' characterized DataTreasury as "a compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patent Examiner
A patent examiner (or, historically, a patent clerk) is an employee, usually a civil servant with a scientific or engineering background, working at a patent office. Major employers of patent examiners are the European Patent Office (EPO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), and other patent offices around the world. Duties Patent examiners review patent applications to determine whether the invention(s) claimed in each of them should be granted a patent or whether the application should instead be refused. One of the most important tasks of a patent examiner is to review the disclosure in the application and to compare it to the prior art. This involves reading and understanding a patent application, searching the prior art (including prior patent applications and patents, scientific literature databases, etc.) to determine what contribution the invention makes over the prior art, and issuing office actions to explain to the applica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
POPA
Popa (''priest'' in Romanian) may refer to: People *Alina Popa (born 1978), Romanian-Swiss, IFBB professional bodybuilder * Anatolie Popa (1896–1920), Moldavian military commander *Celestina Popa (born 1970), Romanian, artistic gymnast *Constantin Popa (born 1971), Romanian-Israeli basketball player *Gabriel Popa (painter) (1937–1995), Romanian painter *Grigore T. Popa (1892–1948), Romanian physician * Ilie Popa (1907–1983), Romanian mathematician * Ion Popa (other), several people *Loredan Popa (born 1980), Romanian canoer *Marius Popa (born 1978), Romanian footballer *Mihnea Popa (born 1973), Romanian-American mathematician *Nicolae Popa (judge) (born 1939), Romanian judge *Nicolae Popa (businessman) (born c. 1965), a Romanian businessman *Roxana Popa (born 1997), a Romanian born Spanish artistic gymnast *Sorin Popa (born 1953), a Romanian-American mathematician * Toma Popa (1908–1962), Romanian chess master *Tudor Petrov-Popa (born 1963), Moldovan-Romanian poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |