[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                                H.R. 359

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, I am asking my colleagues to join 67 
Members of the House in cosponsoring H.R. 359. This legislation will 
prevent a major rip-off of American inventors and investors by ensuring 
that Americans have the 17 years of patent protection which was their 
right prior to the passage of the GATT implementation legislation last 
year.
  Hidden in that implementation legislation was a provision not 
required by GATT that was slipped into the implementation legislation. 
The provision dramatically reduces the number of years of patent 
protection for American citizens, permitting foreign nationals, foreign 
and international corporations to use American technology against us in 
the world competition without so much as paying royalties to American 
inventors and investors who created the technology.
  H.R. 359 will stop the rip-off and perfect the GATT language by 
purging this provision from part of the GATT that should never have 
been part of it in the first place.


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