[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5638 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5638

  To amend title 35, United States Code, to create an exception from 
infringement for certain component parts used to repair another article 
                            of manufacture.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2008

Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 35, United States Code, to create an exception from 
infringement for certain component parts used to repair another article 
                            of manufacture.

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

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION FROM INFRINGEMENT FOR CERTAIN COMPONENT PARTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 271 of title 35, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(j) It shall not be an act of infringement to make, use, offer to 
sell, or sell within the United States or import into the United States 
any article of manufacture that itself constitutes a component part of 
another article of manufacture, if the sole purpose of the component 
part is for the repair of the article of manufacture of which it is a 
part so as to restore its original appearance.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies to 
acts done on or after March 13, 2008.
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