Opinion
2011-1067
09-16-2011
NOTE: This order is nonprecedential
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in case no. 01-CV-0435, Judge Arthur J. Schwab.
Before LINN, DYK, AND PROST, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM.
ORDER
The President has today signed into law the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, H.R. 1249, 112th Cong. (1st Sess. 2011), amending 35 U.S.C. § 292 and including the following text regarding the effective date of this provision: "The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to all cases, without exception, that are pending on, or commenced on or after, the date of the enactment of this Act." Leahy-Smith America Invents Act § 16(b)(4).
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
(1) Each party shall advise the court within fourteen days of the date of this order of the effect of this legislation on the status of this case.
(2) The response shall take the form of a double-spaced letter of no more than five pages.
FOR THE COURT,
Jan Horbaly
Clerk
cc: David G. Oberdick, Esq
Andrew J. Dhuey, Esq.
Douglas N. Letter, Esq.