3.0.0 926 2023-01-11T13:27:24Z 2023-01-11T13:27:24Z Senate S 2015-04-14 114 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2016-02-25T15:00:00Z ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-04-14T21:13:10Z Grace Period Restoration Act of 2015 114 1791 HR 2015-05-15 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. Identical bill CRS 2016-02-25 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-603. Committee 2015-04-14 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2015-04-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI N V000127 Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] David Vitter R LA 2015-04-14 True Commerce Intellectual property Commerce 00 2015-04-14 Introduced in Senate 2015-05-06T21:49:35Z Grace Period Restoration Act of 2015

Amends federal patent law to revise the one-year grace period under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) that prohibits certain pre-filing disclosures made during the year preceding the effective filing date of a claimed invention from being considered prior art that would make the claim ineligible for a patent based on lack of novelty or obvious subject matter grounds. (A disclosure that is prior art generally means that a patent cannot be issued for a claimed invention because the invention was already patented, described in a printed publication, in public use, on sale, available to the public, or described in an issued patent or a previously filed application.)

Prohibits an inventor's or any other person's pre-filing disclosure from barring the patentability of certain claims based on lack of novelty or obvious subject matter grounds if, before such disclosure and within the one-year period before the filing date, the claimed invention was already publicly disclosed in a printed publication by the inventor, a joint inventor, or another who obtained the claimed invention from the inventor or a joint inventor. Allows an inventor who discloses an invention in a printed publication in such a manner in the year before filing a patent claim for the invention to remain entitled to the patent, regardless of any subsequent disclosures by third parties.

Excludes certain disclosures from being considered prior art under the revised grace period.

Requires the amendments made by this Act to take effect as if enacted as part of the AIA.

]]> Grace Period Restoration Act of 2015 Display Title Grace Period Restoration Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the patent law to promote basic research, to stimulate publication of scientific documents, to encourage collaboration in scientific endeavors, to improve the transfer of technology to the private sector, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Grace Period Restoration Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s926is/xml/BILLS-114s926is.xml 2016-02-25 Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-603. 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.