PATENTS

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: restore term of patent grant for time of regulatory review period preventing marketing of certain products (see S. 1093)

Authors: establish commission to study feasibility of compensation for not-for-profit lending of their works (see S. 658)

Cardiac drugs: extension of patents for certain (see S. 456)

Copyright laws: establish commission to study feasibility of compensating authors for not-for-profit lending of their works (see S. 658)

Crime and criminals: Dept. of Justice protection of consumers against conspiracies by certain patent holders (see S. 1358)

Federally funded research: improve transfer of technology to the public (see S. 65)

———uniform policy and procedure (see S. 64)

Foreign trade: enhance protection of intellectual property rights (see S. 1647, 1869)

———protect patent, trademark, and copyright owners from importation of goods made in violation of U.S. laws (see H.R. 3776)

———restrict importation of goods made overseas by use of U.S. patented process (see S. 1543)

Imports: protect U.S. patent owners (see H.R. 1069)

Industrial designs: protection (see H.R. 1900)

Medical care: extension of patents relative to cardiac drugs (see H.R. 1846)

Patent Act: commemorate anniversary (see S.J. Res. 169)

Patent and Trademark Office: authorize appropriations (see S. 866; H.R. 2434)

———authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1628)

Patent Cooperation Treaty: implement chapter II (see S. 1230)

———implementation (see H.R. 3246)

Patent numbered 3,408,747: extend (see H.R. 3719)

Patent numbered 3,435,845: extend (see H.R. 3938)

Quotation monitoring unit: extend patent numbered 3,387,268 (see S. 1573)

Regulatory review period: restore term of grant in case of certain products prevented from being marketed (see H.R. 3897)

Space sciences: application of U.S. patent law to activities aboard spacecraft (see H.R. 2725)

———inventor's patent rights (see H.R. 3112)

Video recorder copyrighted works: infringement exemption for noncommercial recording (see H.R. 384)

Essays: Voice of Democracy

Houghton, Melissa, 1627 [31JA]

Letters

Protection of intellectual property rights: Donald W. Banner, 32811 [20NO]

Remarks in House

Agricultural Patent Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3897), 36103 [11DE]

Heart disease: extend patents on bretylium tosylate and bethanidine sulphate (H.R. 1846), 6867 [28MR]

Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Enforcement Act: enact (H.R. 3776), 32273 [18NO]

Outer Space Inventions Act: enact (H.R. 3112), 22031 [31JY]

Patent and Trademark Office: authorize appropriations (H.R. 1628), 5937 [20MR]

———authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2434), 16921 [24JN]

Patent Cooperation Treaty: implementation (H.R. 3246), 23126 [9SE]

Patent law: importation into the U.S. of goods made overseas by use of a U.S. patented process (H.R. 1069), 2336 [7FE]

Patents: restore time to manufacturers of pesticides, animal drugs, veterinary biologics, and industry chemicals (H.R. 3897), 36103 [11DE]

Remarks in Senate

Cardiac drugs: extension of patents for certain (S. 456), 2205 [7FE]

Chemicals: restore term of grant for certain agrichemical products (S. 1093), 10860 [7MY], 32316 [19NO]

Copyrights: protection, 15604 [13JN]

Crime and criminals: Dept. of Justice protection of consumers against conspiracies by certain patent holders (S. 1358), 17062 [25JN]

Foreign trade: enhance protection of intellectual property rights (S. 1647), 23772-23774 [13SE]

———enhance protection of intellectual property rights (S. 1869), 32809 [20NO]

———restrict importation of goods made overseas by use of U.S. patented process (S. 1543), 21737-21738 [31JY], 25312 [30SE]

Inventions: establish uniform policy for rights developed with Federal assistance (S. 64), 161 [3JA]

Laws: commemorate anniversary of first enactment (S.J. Res. 169), 19973 [23JY]

Patent and Trademark Office: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2434), 36932 [17DE]

Patent Cooperation Treaty: implement chapter II (S. 1230), 14160 [4JN]

Quotation monitoring unit: extend patent No. 3,387,268 (S. 1573), 22336 [1AU]

Reports

Concurrent Registrations: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 1002) (S. Rept. 99-153), 26765 [8OC]

Patent Cooperation Treaty Implementation: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 1230), 35534 [10DE]

Request President To Designate Made in America Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 206), 25171 [26SE]

Statements

Derivative Works Exception to Termination of Copyright Grant (H.R. 3163): Byron R. White (excerpt), 22801 [1AU]

Texts of

H.R. 1846, extend patents on bretylium tosylate and bethanidine sulphate, 6867 [28MR]

H.R. 2434, authorizing Patent and Trademark Office appropriations, 16921 [24JN]

H.R. 3112, Outer Space Inventions Act, 22031 [31JY]

H.R. 3163, clarify derivative works exception to termination of copyright grant, 22801 [1AU]

S. 64, establish uniform policy for invention rights developed with Federal assistance, 162-164 [3JA]

S. 456, extension of patents for certain cardiac drugs, 2205 [7FE]

S. 1093, provisions, 10860-10863 [7MY]

S. 1230, implementing chapter II of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, 14161 [4JN]

S. 1358, Dept. of Justice protection of consumers against conspiracies by certain patent holders, 17062 [25JN]

S. 1543, restrict importation of goods made overseas by use of U.S. patented process, 21738 [31JY]

S. 1573, extend patent No. 3,387,268 (quotation monitoring unit), 22337 [1AU]

S. 1647, protection of intellectual property rights, 23773 [13SE]

S. 1869, enhance protection of intellectual property rights, 32810 [20NO]

S.J. Res. 169, commemorate anniversary of enactment of first laws, 19973 [23JY]