3.0.0 4394 2023-01-11T13:45:32Z 2023-01-11T13:45:32Z Senate S 2020-07-30 116 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-07-30T21:51:50Z IDEA Act 116 7890 HR 2020-07-30 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Identical bill CRS 2020-07-30 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2020-07-30 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 2020-07-30 True C001088 Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2020-07-30 True Commerce Government information and archives Intellectual property Right of privacy Commerce 00 2020-07-30 Introduced in Senate 2020-09-21T13:36:56Z Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement Act of 2020 or the IDEA Act

This bill requires the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to request demographic information from the inventor on each patent application submitted to the USPTO.

Inventors shall not be required to provide the requested information, which shall include gender, race, and military or veteran status.

The USPTO shall (1) publish an annual public report about the collected data, including the collected data broken down by the types of technology covered by the patent applications; and (2) make the underlying data publicly available.

]]> 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 2020 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 inventors, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4394is/xml/BILLS-116s4394is.xml 2020-07-30 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.