IP Groups Developing Fresh Patent Eligibility Bill Proposal (2)

Intellectual property law organizations and others are working on a proposal for a patent eligibility law rewrite aimed at jump-starting talks on legislation, according to three sources familiar with the effort.

Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have been working for months on legislation to respond to U.S. Supreme Court decisions in recent years that attorneys say have left patent eligibility law poorly defined. But the senators’ effort is delayed over disagreement among stakeholders, including on how to change Section 112(f) of patent law, which covers terms in patent claims describing the means to perform a function.

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