3.0.0 963 2023-01-11T13:27:23Z 2023-01-11T13:27:23Z Senate S 2015-04-15 114 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-04-15T22:09:17Z 2015-04-15 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. IntroReferral 2015-04-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. N C001088 Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2015-04-15 True Commerce Advanced technology and technological innovations Competition and antitrust Congressional oversight Government studies and investigations Intellectual property Licensing and registrations Small business Technology transfer and commercialization Commerce 00 2015-04-15 Introduced in Senate 2015-05-28T21:39:35Z Small Business Innovation Impact Act

This bill requires the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to submit an analysis, using existing resources, to specified congressional committees on:

  • the investment of small businesses in developing new and useful inventions and obtaining patents on them;
  • the importance of university technology transfer to small businesses;
  • the use of patent licensing arrangements by them;
  • the impact of patent ownership for small businesses on attracting outside investment, creating new jobs, protecting against foreign infringing goods, and competing against larger businesses; and
  • the impact on small businesses from patent-related demand letters and civil actions arising under federal law relating to patent infringement.
]]> Small Business Innovation Impact Act Display Title Small Business Innovation Impact Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to submit a report on small business innovation. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Small Business Innovation Impact Act Introduced in Senate 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s963is/xml/BILLS-114s963is.xml 2015-04-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. 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.