The University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 414 ... May 16, and June 6, 1979 |
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Administration Admiral RICKOVER APLA background patents believe benefit bill BIRCH BAYH commercial Committee competition concern contractor cost Department determination DHEW dollars Ecolotrol effect exclusive license exclusive rights Federal Government filed firms foreign Government agencies Government contracts Government Patent Policy Government research Government's grant Harbridge hepatitis ideas industry innovation Institutional Patent Agreements intellectual property interest inventor involved issued legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS license agreement manufacturer ment NASA Nassau County National negotiations nonexclusive license nonprofit organizations participation patent applications patent rights patent system percent problem profit programs promote proprietary PUTNEY Question regulations request research and development result retain title rights to inventions royalties section 204 sector Senator BAYH Senator DOLE Small Business Patent small companies Staats statement Subcommittee subject invention technology transfer tion U.S. Senate University and Small utilization vitamin D waiver
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Page 63 - to build upon existing knowledge or technology; is to develop information, products, processes, or methods for use by the Government ; and is in a field of technology in which the contractor has acquired technical competence directly related to an area in which the contractor has an established nongovernmental commercial position.
Page 11 - in the manufacture or sale of products or the use of processes that might utilize the invention or be in competition with embodiments of the invention (provided that such assignee shall be subject to the same provisions as the contractor) (b) a prohibition against the granting of exclusive licenses under
Page 220 - of exclusive licenses under United States Patents or Patent Applications in a subject invention by the contractor for a period in excess of the earlier of five years from first commercial sale or use of the invention or eight years from the date of the exclusive license, except if the licensee is a small business, and
Page 51 - Subsections (b) and (c) respectively define funding agreement as "any contract, grant, or cooperative agreement entered into between any Federal agency and any person," and contractor as "any person that is a party to a funding agreement" (emphasis added). There is, however, no definition of person
Page 276 - public welfare and education, aiding the development of our country's industries, and adding to the material prosperity and happiness of our people." Founded in 1876, the American Chemical Society was chartered as a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization by an act of Congress which was signed into law on August 25,1937. Current membership in the Society is approximately
Page 112 - any invention conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the course of or under its sub-agreement with the County of Nassau under he referenced grant. As a result of numerous discussions within EPA it has been concluded that a waiver of the type requested is essentially justified, and the enclosed clause in paragraph (b) reflects this view.
Page 159 - policy and objective of the Congress to use the patent system to promote the utilization of inventions arising from federally supported research or development * * * " and to "protect the public against nonuse or unreasonable use of inventions.
Page 253 - that Commission report then, and again as we read it today, there is one phrase therein that seems to have an almost prescient connotation. On page 2 of that Commission report, we read: "The members of the Commission unanimously agreed that a patent system today is capable of continuing to provide an incentive to research, development, and innovation.
Page 219 - urges the enactment of legislation providing a uniform Government patent policy under which normally a contractor, should he so elect, would retain title to each invention conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the course of development under a government research and development contract.
Page 50 - information, products or processes for use by the Government, and the subject matter of the contract is directly related to an area in which the contractor has an established non-governmental commercial position— the contractor