It’s not often that enough exciting things happen in the world of copyright or even the broader category of intellectual property that we can give a week in review. Usually us practitioners are happy with a year in review. Congress, in the week preceding their recess, got busy on voting on copyright and other IP issues.
The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008: On September 28th, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed S. 3325 (the PRO-IP Bill). Earlier in the week the bill had passed the Senate. The President is expected to sign the bill into law.
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