[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1197 Engrossed Amendment Senate (EAS)]

                  In the Senate of the United States,

                         October 15 (legislative day, October 2), 1998.
      Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 
1197) entitled ``An Act to amend title 35, United States Code, to 
protect patent owners against the unauthorized sale of plant parts 
taken from plants illegally reproduced, and for other purposes.'', do 
pass with the following

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    Page 4, after line 14 insert:

SEC. 4. ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC PATENT INFORMATION.

    (a) In General.--The United States Patent and Trademark Office 
shall develop and implement statewide computer networks with remote 
library sites in requesting rural States such that citizens in those 
States will have enhanced access to information in their State's patent 
and trademark depository library.
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``rural States'' means 
the States that qualified on January 1, 1997, as rural States under 
section 1501(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 379bb(b)).

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
105th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 1197

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