Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday assured the business community that congressional efforts to fight patent trolls will continue in 2015, saying he expects lawmakers to resume work on patent litigation reform “very early” in the next Congress.
Speaking in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center’s Global IP Summit, Goodlatte didn’t give a specific time line for reform. But he said Congress can pass legislation to curb abusive patent litigation, despite difficulties in approving a reform bill this year.
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