{"id":228,"date":"2011-01-20T12:33:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2011-01-20T12:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:33:40","slug":"patent-lawsuit-reform-act-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/litigation\/infringement\/patent-lawsuit-reform-act-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent Lawsuit Reform Act of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to put a stop to the flood windfall-seeking patent marking lawsuits from special purpose entities, Rep. Robert Latta (R-OH) reintroduced a bill (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/BILLS-112hr243ih\/pdf\/BILLS-112hr243ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">H.R. 243<\/a>) that would revise section 292 to revert to the practice of assessing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one<\/span> $500 fine for marking unpatented articles or patent-expired patents and, importantly, to require the party bringing the false marking suit to &#8220;have suffered a competitive injury&#8221; as a result of the violation.<\/p>\n<p>Further details are explained at the patent law and news blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentdocs.org\/2011\/01\/rep-latta-reintroduces-false-marking-bill-in-the-house.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patent Docs<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to put a stop to the flood windfall-seeking patent marking lawsuits from special purpose entities, Rep. Robert Latta (R-OH) reintroduced a bill (H.R. 243)&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-3G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}