[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1127 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1127

        To limit the issuance of patents on medical procedures.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 1995

 Mr. Ganske (for himself and Mr. Wyden) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
        To limit the issuance of patents on medical procedures.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medical Procedures Innovation and 
Affordability Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ISSUANCE OF PATENTS.

    On or after the date of the enactment of this Act, a patent may not 
be issued for any invention or discovery of a technique, method, or 
process for performing a surgical or medical procedure, administering a 
surgical or medical therapy, or making a medical diagnosis, except that 
if the technique, method, or process is performed by or as a necessary 
component of a machine, manufacture, or composition of matter or 
improvement thereof which is itself patentable subject matter, the 
patent on such machine, manufacture, or composition of matter may claim 
such technique, method, or process.
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