PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

Amendments

Awards, medals, prizes: establish competition to award certificates that can be redeemed to accelerate certain matters at Patent and Trademark Office (H.R. 5796), S6828 [28NO], H8752 [5DE]

Patents: require satellite offices to conduct outreach to increase patent system participation by women, people of color, veterans, individual inventors, and other underrepresented groups (S. 2773), S7006 [6DE]

Bills and resolutions

Awards, medals, prizes: establish competition to award certificates that can be redeemed to accelerate certain matters at Patent and Trademark Office (see S. 4210), S2493 [12MY]

GAO: submit report on ways to improve patent examination process at Patent and Trademark Office (see S. 4704), S3860 [2AU]

Patent Trial and Appeal Board: improve process to challenge validity of patents (see S. 4417), S3003 [16JN]

Patents: address matters relative to patent subject matter eligibility (see S. 4734), S3861 [2AU]

——— establish interagency task force between Patent and Trademark Office and FDA for sharing information and providing technical assistance relative to patents (see S. 4430), S3003 [16JN]

——— limit foreign interference relative to right to file and maintain patent infringement claims (see S. 3772), S1058 [8MR]

——— require satellite offices to conduct outreach to increase patent system participation by women, people of color, veterans, individual inventors, and other underrepresented groups (see H.R. 8697), H7557 [9AU]

Trademarks: clarify that licensing of mark for use by related company does not establish employment relationship between owner of mark and that related company or its employees (see S. 4976), S5225 [28SE]

Lists

Votes recorded by proxy on H.R. 5796, Patents for Humanity Act, H8780 [6DE]

Remarks in House

Awards, medals, prizes: establish competition to award certificates that can be redeemed to accelerate certain matters at Patent and Trademark Office (H.R. 5796), H4520, H4521 [27AP], E438 [29AP]

——— establish competition to award certificates that can be redeemed to accelerate certain matters at Patent and Trademark Office (H.R. 5796), Senate amendment, H8752–H8754 [5DE]

Remarks in Senate

Awards, medals, prizes: establish competition to award certificates that can be redeemed to accelerate certain matters at Patent and Trademark Office (H.R. 5796), S6828 [28NO]

Patents: require satellite offices to conduct outreach to increase patent system participation by women, people of color, veterans, individual inventors, and other underrepresented groups (S. 2773), S7006, S7007 [6DE]

Vidal, Katherine: nomination to be Under Sec. of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Patent and Trademark Office Director, S1974 [5AP]

Reports filed

Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 4430), S3860 [2AU]

Nomination of Katherine Vidal To Be Under Sec. of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Patent and Trademark Office Director: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S220 [13JA]

Patents for Humanity Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 5796) (H. Rept. 117–302), H4574 [27AP]

Unleashing American Innovators Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2773), S6940 [1DE]

Texts of

H.R. 5796, Patents for Humanity Act, H4520 [27AP]

S. 4430, Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act, S3005 [16JN]