July 03, 2014
The America Invents Act's retroactive elimination of qui tam false marking lawsuits is constitutional, an Illinois federal judge ruled Thursday, dooming a suit accusing Procter & Gamble Co. of labeling its Swiffer replacement cloths and wet pads with inapplicable patents.
December 13, 2011
The U.S. on Monday defended the constitutionality of a provision of the patent reform law that retroactively limits qui tam false marking suits, filing a brief in a suit targeting Procter & Gamble Co.'s Swiffer products in Illinois federal court.