3.0.0 2281 2022-11-01T13:50:23Z 2022-11-01T13:50:23Z Senate S 2019-07-25 116 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-07-25T18:08:51Z IDEA Act 116 4075 HR 2019-08-28 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. Identical bill CRS 2019-07-25 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5110-5111) IntroReferral 2019-07-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. N T000476 Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] Thomas Tillis R NC Roland 2019-07-25 True C001088 Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2019-09-16 False H001075 Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] Kamala Harris D CA D. 2019-09-16 False Commerce Congressional oversight Government information and archives Intellectual property Right of privacy Commerce 00 2019-07-25 Introduced in Senate 2020-10-19T20:03:23Z Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement Act of 2019 or the IDEA Act

This bill directs the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to collect demographic information about each inventor listed on a patent application. Inventors shall not be required to provide the requested information, which shall include gender, ethnicity, national origin, sexual identity, veterans status, disability, and education and income levels. Such information shall be (1) kept confidential and separate from each patent application, and (2) periodically made public as aggregated data without personally identifying information.

]]> IDEA Act Display Title IDEA Act Short Title(s) as Introduced IDEA Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend chapter 11 of title 35, United States Code, to require the voluntary collection of demographic information for patent applications, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2281is/xml/BILLS-116s2281is.xml 2019-07-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5110-5111) 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.