On Tuesday, a coalition of business organizations and policy experts led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce raised several concerns related to potential new patent fees they said would amount to “fines” on patent owners in a letter addressed to the bipartisan leadership of the Judiciary Committees for both houses of Congress. Echoing warnings from industry insiders about the inherent difficulties of patent valuation, the U.S. Chamber’s letter questions the Trump Administration’s legal authority to implement such fees and says that the valuation-based fee framework would be “administratively unworkable.”
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