[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 147 (Thursday, October 15, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S12656]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PLANT PATENT AMENDMENTS ACT OF 1998

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                 LEAHY (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 3830

  Mr. GRAIG (for Mr. Leahy for himself, Mr. Smith of Oregon, and Mr. 
Hatch) proposed an amendment to the bill (H.R. 1197) 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; as follows:

       At the end of the bill add the following:

     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)).

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