3.0.0 866 2023-01-11T13:24:59Z 2023-01-11T13:24:59Z Senate S S 2013-05-06 113 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2013-05-06T21:52:05Z STOP Act 113 2766 HR 2013-09-13 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. Related bill CRS 2013-05-06 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2013-05-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. N Commerce Financial services and investments Intellectual property Commerce 00 2013-05-06 Introduced in Senate 2013-05-17T16:38:29Z Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to remove the eight-year sunset provision with respect to the transitional post-grant review program available to review the validity of covered business method patents, thereby making the program permanent.

Expands the term "covered business method patent" to include a patent that claims a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing or other operations used in the practice, administration, or management of any enterprise, product, or service, except technological inventions. (Current law limits the program to financial products or services.)

]]> Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013 Display Title Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013 Official Title as Introduced A bill to make improvements to the transitional program covered business method patents, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013 Introduced in Senate 2013-05-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s866is/xml/BILLS-113s866is.xml 2013-05-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 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.