The long-awaited patent reform law signed Friday by President Barack Obama has placed Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in the role of political piñata thanks to a provision buried in the bill that would save the firm its share of a $214 million settlement.
The Senate’s passage of the historic legislation—known as the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act—prompted some business leaders to cheer the streamlined process the law creates for issuing new patents. At the same time, a flood of new infringement suits hit the federal courts before Obama signed the bill into law.
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