(For those who wonder whether Congress will ever pass a patent reform bill, we offer the following with a tip o' the hat to Edgar Allan Poe....) Once upon a mid-day dreary, While I pondered dazed and bleary, O'er forgotten writs of Federal Circuit law and patent lore. Yes, I nodded, nearly napping, But then came a nagging tapping. Some optimist was gently rapping, Rapping at my office door. "'Tis some fool," I think I muttered, "Waxing over writs of yore, Only this, and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember, It was back in some December, When each separate Senate...