PATENTS

Amendments

Patent and Trademark Office: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2047), S6174, S6175 [26JN]

———authorizing appropriations (S. 1754), S6175 [26JN]

Articles and editorials

Debate on Human Cloning Turns to Patents, S5525 [13JN]

New Call for Cloning Policy, S5526 [13JN]

University's Cloning Patent Raises a ``Mammal'' Issue, S5525 [13JN]

Bills and resolutions

Government regulations: technical corrections in patent laws (see H.R. 5119), H4604 [15JY]

Law enforcement: prevent and punish counterfeiting and copyright piracy of intellectual property (see S. 2395), S3559 [30AP] (see H.R. 5057), H4325 [27JN]

Office of Science and Technology Policy: conduct a study of the impact of Federal policies on the innovation process for genomic technologies (see H.R. 3966), H931 [14MR]

Research: allow noninfringing uses of patents on genetic sequence information for research and genetic diagnostic testing, and require disclosure of such information in patent applications (see H.R. 3967), H931 [14MR]

States: restore Federal remedies for violations of intellectual property rights by States (see S. 2031), S2076 [19MR]

World Intellectual Property Organization: contribute funding for projects intended to promote the integration of developing countries into the global intellectual property system (see H.R. 5689), H8022 [16OC]

Letters

Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act: Carl B. Feldbaum, Biotechnology Industry Organization, S6994 [18JY]

———James E. Rogan, Patent and Trademark Office, S7571 [30JY]

———Senator Kennedy, S7026-S7028 [18JY]

———Stephen Mulloney, Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, S6995 [18JY]

Patents relative to the cloning of humans: Carl B. Feldbaum, Biotechnology Industry Organization, S5626 [17JN]

Prohibit the cloning of humans: American Society for Cell Biology and several Nobel Prize laureates, S5523 [13JN]

Remarks in House

Law enforcement: prevent and punish counterfeiting and copyright piracy of intellectual property (H.R. 5057), E1178 [28JN]

Office of Science and Technology Policy: conduct a study of the impact of Federal policies on the innovation process for genomic technologies (H.R. 3966), E353-E355 [14MR]

Research: allow noninfringing uses of patents on genetic sequence information for research and genetic diagnostic testing, and require disclosure of such information in patent applications (H.R. 3967), E353-E355 [14MR]

Remarks in Senate

Law enforcement: prevent and punish counterfeiting and copyright piracy of intellectual property (S. 2395), S3561 [30AP]

Patent and Trademark Office: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2047), S6174 [26JN], S6235 [27JN]

———authorizing appropriations (S. 1754), S6175 [26JN], S6235 [27JN]

Science: prohibit patents relative to the cloning of humans, S5514-S5527 [13JN], S5578-S5581 [14JN], S5624-S5626 [17JN]

States: restore Federal remedies for violations of intellectual property rights by States (S. 2031), S2078-S2082 [19MR]

World Trade Organization: position on certain U.S. regulations governing intellectual property rights, S1533 [5MR]

Reports filed

Appeals by Third Parties in Certain Patent Reexamination Proceedings: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (H.R. 1886), S5850 [20JN]

Clarify the Basis for Granting Patent Reexamination Requests: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (H.R. 1866), S5850 [20JN]

Intellectual Property Counterfeiting and Copyright Piracy Prevention and Punishment: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2395), S7033 [18JY]

Patent and Trademark Office Appropriations: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1754), S5850 [20JN]

Summaries

Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act (S. 2031), S2081 [19MR]

Texts of

H.R. 2047, Patent and Trademark Office appropriations, S6174 [26JN]

S. 1754, Patent and Trademark Office appropriations, S6175 [26JN]

S. 2031, Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act, S2080 [19MR]

S. 2395, prevent and punish counterfeiting and copyright piracy of intellectual property, S3562 [30AP]