How the Patent Reform Act will Impact Your Business. On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed into law the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (the "Act"), which will substantially affect the way that patents are procured and enforced in the United States. The Act makes very significant changes to U.S. patent law. The Act includes many changes, large and small, affecting subjects as far-reaching as the available appeals from reexaminations to the subject matter eligibility of tax planning methods and human organisms. Please join us for a presentation and question and answer session. See http://www.octaneoc.org |