PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE PATENT

SECTION, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS
AND SPACE ACT OF 1958

REPORT

OF THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PATENTS AND SCIENTIFIC

INVENTIONS

TO THE

COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

DISCARDED

Lockheed Missiles
and Spacesion

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COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS

OVERTON BROOKS, Louisiana, Chairman

JOHN W. McCORMACK, Massachusetts
GEORGE P. MILLER, California
OLIN E. TEAGUE, Texas
VICTOR L. ANFUSO, New York
B. F. SISK, California

ERWIN MITCHELL, Georgia
JAMES M. QUIGLEY, Pennsylvania
DAVID M. HALL, North Carolina
LEONARD G. WOLF, Iowa
JOSEPH E. KARTH, Minnesota
KEN HECHLER, West Virginia
EMILIO Q. DADDARIO, Connecticut
WALTER H. MOELLER, Ohio
DAVID S. KING, Utah

J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana

JOSEPH W. MARTIN, JR., Massachusetts
JAMES G. FULTON, Pennsylvania
GORDON L. MCDONOUGH, California
J. EDGAR CHENOWETH, Colorado
FRANK C. OSMERS, JR., New Jersey
WILLIAM K. VAN PELT, Wisconsin
A. D. BAUMHART, JR., Ohio
PERKINS BASS, New Hampshire
R. WALTER RIEHLMAN, New York

CHARLES F. DUCANDER, Executive Director and Chief Counsel
DR. CHARLES S. SHELDON II, Technical Director
SPENCER M. BERESFORD, Special Counsel
PHILIP B. YEAGER, Special Consultant
JOHN A. CARSTARPHEN, Jr., Chief Clerk.
LT. COL. FRANCIS J. DILLON, Jr., Staff Consultant
RICHARD P. HINES, Staff Consultant
RAYMOND WILCOVE, Staff Consultant

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PATENTS AND SCIENTIFIC INVENTIONS
ERWIN MITCHELL, Georgia, Chairman

JAMES M. QUIGLEY, Pennsylvania
EMILIO Q. DADDARIO, Connecticut
DAVID S. KING, Utah

JAMES G. FULTON, Pennsylvania
J. EDGAR CHENOWETH, Colorado
PERKINS BASS, New Hampshire
PHILIP B. YEAGER, Special Consultant,
JOHN A. CARSTARPHER, Jr., Counsel