Patent reform seemed inevitable in 2015 when many thought that legislation aiming to address perceived problems with the U.S. patent system would pass. The White House urged reform as did some justices on the U.S. Supreme Court and many members of Congress. In response to these perceived problems, legislators introduced several bills covering different issues. The two most comprehensive — the House's Innovation Act and its Senate counterpart, the PATENT Act — focus on curbing "abusive" patent-litigation practices through a wide variety of means, many relating to procedural and evidentiary standards. In this article, Finnegan attorneys Lionel M. Lavenue, R. Benjamin Cassady, and Michael Liu Su review the VENUE Act.
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