3.0.0 4040 2023-01-12T17:52:01Z 2023-01-12T17:52:01Z Senate S S 2006-09-29 109 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-09-30T02:14:41Z 2006-09-29 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10743-10745) IntroReferral 2006-09-29 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10741-10743) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2006-09-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT N Commerce Drug approvals Drug industry Drugs Education Exports Foreign Trade and International Finance Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Health Higher education Imports Intellectual property Inventions Laboratories Law Licenses Marketing Medical research Medical supplies Orphan drugs Patents Research and development facilities Research centers Science, Technology, Communications Vaccines Commerce 00 2006-09-29 Introduced in Senate 2007-01-12T21:03:39Z Public Research in the Public Interest Act of 2006 - Requires, as a condition of receiving federal assistance, any institution of higher education or research that conceives, reduces to practice, or holds title in a subject invention to grant irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive licenses to the invention and associated rights to any party requesting such a license pursuant to this Act. Provides that licenses shall be issued for: (1) supplying medical products to countries with low-income or lower-middle income economies; or (2) conducting neglected research anywhere, royalty-free. Provides that such licenses shall be part of the institution's title in a subject invention. Makes a license under this Act irrevocable and perpetual so long as the licensee submits to the licensor payment of a fair royalty on sales of any medical product within 90 days.

Deems a party as automatically receiving the license requested upon submitting the required information to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Sets forth procedures for objections to the grant of a requested license.

Requires the holder of title or any license in a subject invention to notify the FDA of any grant or license of rights in that invention.

]]> Public Research in the Public Interest Act of 2006 Display Title Public Research in the Public Interest Act of 2006 Official Title as Introduced A bill to ensure that innovations developed at federally-funded institutions are available in certain developing countries at the lowest possible cost. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Public Research in the Public Interest Act of 2006 Introduced in Senate 2006-09-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s4040is/xml/BILLS-109s4040is.xml 2006-09-29 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10743-10745) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.