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Public Knowledge said it supports the Transparency in...

Public Knowledge said it supports the Transparency in Assertion of Patents Act (S-2049). The bill, introduced last week by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., would extend the FTC’s authority to regulate patent assertion entities’ use of pre-litigation demand letters. Public Knowledge…

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advocated for Senate Commerce Committee action on demand letters at a November hearing, and S-2049 “implements many of the reforms that we advocated in our testimony at the hearing,” said Charles Duan, Public Knowledge’s director-Patent Reform Project, in a statement Friday. The Senate Commerce Committee is to vote on S-2049 during an executive session Wednesday.