PATENTS

Articles and editorials

A.M. Quattlebaum, 6303 [19MR]

Lawyers Are Our Secret Weapon, 5992 [17MR]

Retired Georgetown Businessman Alexander Quattlebaum Dies, 6304 [19MR]

Wounded by Patent Piracy, 12492 [14MY]

Bills and resolutions

Animals: prohibit patenting of genetically altered or modified (see H.R. 3119)

Business: improve international copyright, patent, and trademark protection (see H.R. 1718, 1651, 2429)

Courts: term restoration (see H.R. 3074)

Drugs: authorize abbreviated new animal drug applications and patents (see H.R. 3120)

Foreign countries: U.S. patented processes, patent misuse and licensee challenges to patent validity (see S. 1200)

Foreign trade: importation of goods made overseas by U.S. patented process (see S. 568; H.R. 380)

Industry: U.S. manufacturing of products derived from inventions arising from federally supported research and development (see H.R. 2119)

Inventions: extend patent for automatic variable pitch marine propeller (see H.R. 3257)

Laws: amend (see H.R. 1508, 1509)

Oil shale patents: moratorium (see S. 597)

Outer space: amend laws relative to use of inventions (see H.R. 1510, 1521)

Patend No. 3,387,268: extend (see S. 1102; H.R. 1274)

Patent No. 3,408,747: extend (see H.R. 2904)

Pesticides: extend agricultural and chemical products for period under regulatory review (see H.R. 1345)

Quotation Monitoring Unit: extend patent numbered 3,387,268 (see S. 1102; H.R. 1274)

Space industrialization: working relations of Federal agencies and private sector (see S. 502)

Space law: applications for patents pending or filed (see S. 502)

Trademarks: amend laws relative to customs and gray market goods (see S. 1671)

U.S. Code: amend with respect to patented processes (see H.R. 1931)

Court decisions

Copiat v. U.S., 23573 [9SE]

Hearings

Committee on the Judiciary (House): Japanese-made digital audio tape impact on U.S. recording industry (testimony), D230 [2AP]

Committee on the Judiciary (Senate): Japanese-made digital audio tape impact on U.S. recording industry (testimony), D230 [2AP]

———protection of industrial designs of useful articles (S. 791) (testimony), D199 [26MR]

———protection of semiconductor chip designs (testimony from Norman R. Augustine, Robert Noyce, and Jonathan E. Cornell), D103 [3MR]

———U.S. patented process (S. 568, 573, 635) (testimony), D267 [22AP]

Letters

Patent restoration: Otis N. Bowen, Sec. of HHS, 5697 [13MR]

Protection: John R. Bolton, 12489 [14MY]

Purchase of Sony Corp. optical disk system for storing patent information: James E. Verity, Jr., Sec. of Commerce, 32681 [18NO]

Research conducted by foreign countries: Representatives Bustamante and Aspin, 9640 [23AP]

Meetings

Committee on the Judiciary (House): patent and trademark laws of the U.S. (H.R. 1509), D248 [8AP]

———patented processes and the patent cooperative treaty (H.R. 1718), D202 [26MR], D221 [1AP]

———patented processes (H.R. 1931), D248 [8AP]

Memorandums

Process Patent Law: World Intellectual Property Organization, 3774 [19FE]

Petitions

Redress of grievances: U.S. citizen, 8758 [9AP]

Remarks in House

Anti-Piracy and Market Access Act: enact (H.R. 1328), 4451 [2MR]

Courts: term restoration (H.R. 3074), 22159 [3AU]

Drugs: authorize abbreviated new animal drug applications and patents (H.R. 3120), 22690 [5AU]

Foreign trade: industrial design protection (H.R. 379), 907 [7JA]

Industry: U.S. manufacturing of products derived from inventions arising from federally supported research and development (H.R. 2119), 9639 [23AP]

Laws: strengthen protection for processes, 904 [7JA]

Motion pictures: audiovisual works for inpatients in health care facilities (H.R. 2429), 12555 [14MY]

Newman, Joseph W.: energy machine, 7747 [1AP]

Remarks in Senate

Animals: prohibit funds for patenting of genetically altered species, 13914 [28MY]

Foreign countries: U.S. patented processes, patent misuse and licensee challenges to patent validity (S. 1200), 12487-12492 [14MY]

Foreign trade: protect U.S. owners from importation of goods made with U.S. patent process (S. 568), 3773-3778 [19FE], 12487, 12491, 12492 [14MY]

———protect U.S. owners from importation of overseas goods made with U.S. patent process (S. 573), 12491, 12492 [14MY]

NASA: use of inventions in outer space (S. 501), 3087-3089 [5FE]

Process Patent Act: enact (S. 573), 3793-3795 [19FE]

Quotation Monitoring Unit: extend patent numbered 3,387,268 (S. 1102), 10119 [28AP]

Trademarks: amend laws relative to customs and gray market goods (S. 1671), 23573 [9SE]

Statements

Protection: International Bureau of World Intellectual Property Organization, 12489 [14MY]

Summaries

Convention on the Grant of European Patents, 3775 [19FE]

Tables

Process patent protection in group B countries, 3775 [19FE]

Texts of

H.R. 1328, Anti-Piracy and Market Access Act, 4452-4454 [2MR]

S. 501, NASA use of inventions in outer space, 3088 [5FE]

S. 568, protect U.S. owners from importation of goods made with U.S. patent process, 3777 [19FE]

S. 573, Process Patent Act, 3795 [19FE]

S. 1102, extend patent numbered 3,387,268, Quotation Monitoring Unit, 10119 [28AP]

S. 1200, U.S. patented processes, patent misuse and licensee challenges to patent validity, 12487, 12489 [14MY]