Uniform Patent Procedures Act of 1983: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2171 ... March 27, 1984 |
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Page 75 - It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Page 106 - It is the policy and objective of the Congress to use the patent system to promote the utilization of inventions arising from federally supported research or development...
Page 148 - During 1961-64 he was a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development. He...
Page 89 - CEC will profit from continuous communication with the various bodies which represent the institutions of higher learning, such as the American Council on Education, the Association of American Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Association of State Colleges and Universities, the Association of American Colleges, the American Association of Junior Colleges, and others.
Page 39 - OTA at the request of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Page 193 - That the contractor make a written election within two years after disclosure to the Federal agency (or such additional time as may be approved by the Federal agency) whether the contractor will retain title to a subject invention: Provided, That in any case where publication, on sale, or public use, has initiated the one year statutory period in which valid patent protection can still be obtained in the United States, the period for election may be shortened by the Federal agency to a date that...
Page 192 - That the contractor disclose each subject invention to the Federal agency within a reasonable time after it becomes known to contractor personnel responsible for the administration of patent matters, and that the Federal Government may receive title to any subject invention not disclosed to it within such time.
Page 192 - subject invention" means any invention of the contractor conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the performance of work under a funding agreement...
Page 193 - ... Federal agency to a date that is not more than sixty days prior to the end of the statutory period: And provided further, That the Federal Government may receive title to any subject invention in which the contractor does not elect to retain rights or fails to elect rights within such times. (3) That a contractor electing rights in a subject invention agrees to file a patent application prior to any statutory bar date that may occur under this title due to publication, on sale, or public use,...
Page 36 - invention" means any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under this title or any novel variety of plant which is or may be protectable under the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 USC 2321 et seq.). (e) The term "subject invention...