The most recent issue of Washington Lawyer featured an extensive cover story on nanotech commercialization and regulation.
The current mood for cost-cutting in the federal government, as well as state governments, will perhaps limit nanotech regulatory developments in 2011 – time will tell. The EPA continues to look at nanotechnology, but does so through the use of other phrases such as particulate matter in air quality and safety of chemical under TSCA.
On the commercialization side, patent reform momentum is gaining in Congress and is now a real possibility in 2011.