The Senate Judiciary Committee is at an impasse on drafting a bipartisan patent litigation reform bill, Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced Wednesday.

“I have said all along that we needed broad bipartisan support to get a bill through the Senate,” Leahy said in a written statement. “Regrettably, competing companies on both sides of this issue refused to come to agreement on how to achieve that goal.”

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