PTO and U.K. IP Office Team up to Reduce Global Patent Backlogs

The Patent and Trademark Office and the U.K. Intellectual Property Office agreed March 10 to develop an action plan for reducing patent processing backlogs in…

House Passes Trademark Bill, Clearing It for President’s Signature

On March 3, the House of Representatives passed by voice vote a bill to make various changes to the Lanham Act. The House action clears the measure for the president’s signature…

ANALYSIS: Damages, Post-Grant Patent Challenges Are Focus of Revised Senate Patent Reform Bill

The 105-page substitute amendment released March 4 by Senate Judiciary Committee leaders makes an array of changes throughout the version of…

Revised Version of Bipartisan Patent Reform Bill Released by Senate Judiciary Committee

Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee March 4 released a revised version of a bipartisan agreement on patent reform that markedly cuts back on many…

IRS Hearing Speakers Likely to Raise Concerns over Proposed Foreign Merchant Regulations

Speakers scheduled to testify at a March 15 Internal Revenue Service hearing on proposed regulations (REG-139255-08) to implement legislation requiring…

House Action on Senate-Passed Health Care Reform Bill Awaiting Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate

President Obama’s proposed changes to the Senate-passed health care overhaul bill should come to the House floor in the coming weeks, although the exact…

ANALYSIS: Readdressing Transfer Pricing in a Down Economy

In the third of a series of articles by authors from Ernst & Young LLP addressing tax issues arising in a down economy, Bob Ackerman, Dan Karen, Peyton H. Robinson…

Proposed Homeowner Energy Efficiency Rebate Program Advocated by Obama Could Launch in 60 Days

A proposed homeowner energy efficiency rebate program advocated by President Obama could be “up and running” within 60 days, an Energy Department official told reporters March…

Twenty Governors Ask Congress to Block EPA Efforts to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Saying action on climate change should be determined by elected representatives and not the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of 20 governors…