Don’t look now, but Congress may be about to agree on a policy matter.
Just hours after House judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) set Wednesday for a markup of his bill to curb patent troll abuses, Senate judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and ranking member Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced their own bill.
Like Goodlatte’s Innovations Act, Leahy and Lee’s bill, The Patent Transparency and Improvements Act, has similar provisions to protect businesses and innovators that are being targeted by patent trolls.
“When small businesses in Vermont and across the country are threatened with lawsuits for offering WiFi to their customers or using document scanners in their offices, we can all agree the system is not being used as intended,” said Leahy, who collaborated with Goodlatte on the bill.
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