Legislative Branch: November 28, 2022 Letter to Senators Leahy and Tillis on provisions of the “Pride in Patent Ownership Act,” S. 2774
Legislative Branch: September 15, 2022 Letter to Senator Tillis in support of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act
Legislative Branch: July 25, 2022 Letter to leadership of the U.S. House and Senate on Inclusion of the SHOP SAFE Act and INFORM Consumers Act in the final version of the Bipartisan Innovation Act
Legislative branch: May 26, 2022 Letter to the U.S. Copyright Office on standard technical measures
Legislative branch: November 29, 2021 Joint letter from American Bar Association and ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law to Congress re: USPTO fee diversion
Legislative Branch: July 16, 2021 Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee on authentication delay for use in IP cases abroad
Legislative Branch: July 6, 2021 Letter to U.S. House leaders in support of SHOP SAFE Act of 2021 (H.R. 3429)
Letter to U.S. Senate leaders in support of SHOP SAFE Act of 2021 (S. 1843)
Legislative Branch: May 10, 2021 Comments to the Copyright Office on CASE Act regulations
Legislative Branch: March 5, 2021 Comments to Senator Tillis on select provisions of the Draft Digital Copyrights Act of 2021
Legislative Branch: December 1, 2020 Comments on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Sen. Thom Tillis, Chair of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary
Legislative Branch: August 25, 2020 Comments to the House Judiciary Committee on the SHOP SAFE Act of 2020
Legislative Branch: June 29, 2020 Comments to the Senate Finance Committee regarding enhancing the authority of United States Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) to enforce United States design patents
Legislative Branch: May 29, 2020 Letter to Rep. Latta on House Resolution 875 and the Importance of Access to Domain Name Registrant Information in the WHOIS Database
Legislative Branch: September 9, 2019 Letter to the Chair and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet of the House Judiciary Committee for the official record of the hearing held on July 18, 2019 by that subcommittee on “Counterfeits and Cluttering: Emerging Threats to the Integrity of the Trademark System and the Impact on American Consumers and Businesses.”
Legislative Branch: September 6, 2019 Letter to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee from ABA President on the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 (the CASE Act)
Legislative Branch: June 24, 2019 Supplemental responses to questions for the record on the State of Patent Eligibility in America
Legislative Branch: June 18, 2019 Letter to Senate IP Subcommittee providing supplemental views on the State of Patent Eligibility in America, following June 5 testimony of Scott Partridge
Legislative Branch: June 5, 2019
ABA-IPL Immediate Past Chair Scott Partridge provides live testimony before U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property Law, on “The State of Patent Eligibility in America.”
Legislative Branch: May 7, 2019 Letter to select members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 (the “CASE Act”)
Legislative Branch: April 2, 2019 Comments to the Chair of the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee to express support for legislation to amend the Lanham Act to expressly recognize a presumption of irreparable harm rebuttable.
Legislative Branch: January 10, 2019 Comments to the U.S. Copyright Office on registration modernization.
Legislative Branch: December 5, 2018 Letter to Congressman Jeffries on Amendments to Section 2(b) of the Lanham Act
Legislative Branch: December 3, 2018 Comments to the Senate Rules and Administration Committee on Register of Copyrights
Legislative Branch: August 20, 2018
Comments to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee on Letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees supporting the extension of the USPTO’s User Fee Setting Authority.
Legislative Branch: May 16, 2018
Comments to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee on U.S. Patent and Trademark Office oversight. The letter addressed several issues including 1) the need to amend 35 U.S.C. §101 to clarify patent eligibility requirements; 2) the need for procedural reforms to improve the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)’s reviews; and 3) the impact of the Department of Commerce’s Enterprise Services initiative on the USPTO’s user fees.
Legislative: July 23, 2015 Letter from Section Chair to House Judiciary Committee following up on testimony of the Section Chair to the House Judiciary Committee concerning U.S. Copyright Office independence.
Letter to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Grassley on S. 1720 and related bills pending before the Judiciary Committee. - February 5, 2014
Letter from to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chair Lamar Smith on H.R. 1249 re: fee diversion (June 20, 2011)
Letter to U.S. House Majority Leader urging prompt consideration of H.R. 1249 (June 2011)
Letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee and its IP Subcommittee commenting on H.R. 1249, the America Invents Act (May 2011)
Section send letter to U.S. Senators expressing support of S.23
Section provides comments to Senate Judiciary Committee on the requirement for registration as a prerequisite to filing an action for copy right infringement
ABA-IPL Section supports Senate Patent Reform Bill in letter to Majority Leader Senator Reid
Section provides comments to Senate Judiciary Committee on damage awards amendment.
ABA provides comments to Senate Judiciary Committee on the the Coburn amendment to ensure that all fee revenue of the USPTO will be made available to the Office for its use in providing services for which the fees were paid.
Section White Paper on "Agenda for 21st Century Patent Reform"
Section provides comments to Senate Judiciary Committee on the Section's policies relating to inequitable conduct before the PTO.
ABA-IPL Section Letter to Senate Favoring (S. 522) July, 2008
09/20/2007 Letter in opposition to current Patent reform bills ( S. 1145 & H.R. 1908)