BIO's annual conference usually features a crowded session on patent law.

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Also loosening the regulatory chokehold on entrepreneurs is the one piece of bipartisan liberalization legislation to become law this session of Congress: the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act.

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"The court may transact any business at a special session outside the circuit that it might transact at a regular session, " according to the law.

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