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On March 4, 2010, just a few weeks after Senator Leahy (D-Vt.) announced a bipartisan agreement on a patent reform bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a new U.S. patent bill, S.515, directed toward resolving legislative differences and making U.S. patent law more compatible with international laws
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of the United States held that although the Copyright Act’s registration requirement, 17 U.S.C. 411(a), is a precondition to filing a copyright infringement claim, a copyright holder’s failure to comply with that requirement does not restrict a federal court’s subject-matter jurisdiction over infringement claims involving unregistered works
On March 2, 2010, the Supreme Court issued a decision holding that the Copyright Act's requirement that copyright owners must register their works before suing for copyright infringement is not jurisdictional, such that federal district courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over infringement claims involving unregistered works
