The legislation would give the Justice Department authority to seek court orders to block domain names or search results for sites that are alleged to host pirate content.
The legislation would allow the Justice Department and content owners to seek court orders requiring search engines to block results associated with piracy.
This is true despite the fact that prior to filing a patent application a thorough search is typically performed, looking for any publication that might block a patent from issuing, and that a patent application is only filed when chances for obtaining a patent appear good.
Teenage brothers Thomas and Darren Russell were in their second-floor apartment in the 9200 block of South Justine Street in February 2009 when officers announced they had a warrant to search both units of the two-flat.
Representative Ron Paul (Republican Texas) has introduced legislation to block these regulations, correctly pointing out that the government should have access to this kind of information only under a search warrant.