[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 866 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 866

 To make improvements to the transitional program for covered business 
                method patents, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 6, 2013

  Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make improvements to the transitional program for covered business 
                method patents, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Patent Quality Improvement Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENTS TO TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM FOR COVERED BUSINESS 
              METHOD PATENTS.

    Section 18 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (35 U.S.C. 321 
note) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (a)(3); and
            (2) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ``a financial product 
        or'' and inserting ``an enterprise, product, or''.
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