21st CENTURY PATENT SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT ACT

Amendments

Enact (H.R. 400), H1612, H1614, H1615 [16AP], H1645, H1655, H1669 [17AP], H1719, H1723, H1731, H1737 [23AP]

Articles and editorials

How Patent Lawsuits Make a Quiet Engineer Rich and Controversial, H1586 [16AP]

Bills and resolutions

Enact (H.R. 400): consideration (see H. Res. 116), H1610 [16AP]

Comparisons

Japanese, European, and U.S. patent laws, H1729 [23AP]

Letters

Patent and Trademark Office fees: Representative Archer, Committee on Ways and Means (House), H1632 [17AP]

Provisions: Bruce A. Lehman, Patent and Trademark Office, H1721 [23AP]

———Richard W. Velde, Unique Specialty Products (business), H1585 [16AP]

———Robert M. Tobias, National Treasury Employees Union, H1675 [17AP]

Remarks in House

Enact (H.R. 400), H1295, H1326-H1331 [8AP], H1371-H1374 [9AP], H1406 [10AP], H1444-H1449 [14AP], H1461, H1511, H1512 [15AP], H1546, H1585, H1587 [16AP], H1636-H1684 [17AP], H1718, H1719-H1742, H1758 [23AP], H7107-H7112 [9SE], H8837 [21OC], E730 [23AP], E746 [24AP]

———consideration, H1629-H1636 [17AP]

Patent and Trademark Office: exempt independent inventors, small businesses and universities from publication of patent application information until patent is granted, H1731-H1737 [23AP]

———limit publication of all patent applications until two Substantive Patent Office actions have been filed-H1731 [23AP]

———limit publication of all patent applications until two substantive actions have been filed, H1723 [23AP]

———limit the defense to patent infringement based on prior domestic use, to the actual quantity, volume, and scope of the prior use, H1719-H1723 [23AP]

———patent examiner employment and training requirements, H1737, H1738 [23AP]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 400, Provisions: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 116) (H. Rept. 105-56), H1610 [16AP]

Rulings of the Chair

Enact (H.R. 400), H1734 [23AP]

Texts of

H. Res. 116, consideration of H.R. 400, provisions, H1629 [17AP]

H.R. 400, provisions, H1645-H1655 [17AP]