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US patent reform comes to London This year’s Stephen Stewart Memorial Lecture took house concluding night. Organised yesteryear the Intellectual Property Institute and hosted at the offices of Slaughter in addition to May , this annual showpiece talk, chaired yesteryear Sir Hugh Laddie (below, left ), was delivered yesteryear AIPLA President William Rooklidge ( right ) who spoke on ‘Reform of Patent Laws: the USA Experience inwards Forging Legislation from Disparate Interests’. Mr Rooklidge reviewed the original areas of police reform that the AIPLA is pressing for. One of the nearly contentious of these is that the patent should endure awarded the the outset inventor to file (an American euphemism for 'first-to-file'), non to the outset to invent. Other reforms which volition endure greatly welcomed both within the USA in addition to exterior it are the abolition of the requirement that the patent applicant break the 'best mode' of putting his conception into effect, ...