[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 963 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 963

    To require the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business 
    Administration to submit a report on small business innovation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 15, 2015

 Ms. Hirono (for herself and Mr. Coons) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business 
                          and Entrepreneurship

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business 
    Administration to submit a report on small business innovation.

    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 ``Small Business Innovation Impact 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION.

    (a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``small business 
concern'' has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).
    (b) Small Business Administration Report.--Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy 
of the Small Business Administration shall, using existing resources, 
submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the 
Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of 
Representatives a report analyzing--
            (1) the investment of small business concerns in developing 
        new and useful inventions and obtaining patents on those 
        inventions;
            (2) the importance of university technology transfer to 
        small business concerns;
            (3) the use of patent licensing arrangements by small 
        business concerns;
            (4) the impact of patent ownership for small business 
        concerns on attracting outside investment, creating new jobs, 
        protecting against foreign infringing goods, and competing 
        against larger businesses; and
            (5) the impact on small business concerns from patent-
        related demand letters and civil actions arising under title 
        35, United States Code, relating to patent infringement.
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