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US Patent Reform Act of 2011 to Enact “First-to-File” System

US Patent Reform Act of 2011 to Enact “First-to-File” System

Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. With a backlog of more than one million patent applications at the USPTO, the U.S. Congress has been pushing to reform the patent system since 2005. On February 3rd, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Patent Reform Act of 2011 by a […]