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HR 6245 112th Congress House

Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2012

Official title: To amend chapter 29 of title 35, United States Code, to provide for the recovery of computer hardware and software patent litigation costs in cases where the c… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend chapter 29 of title 35, United States Code, to provide for the recovery of computer hardware and software patent litigation costs in cases where the court finds the claimant did not have a reasonable likelihood of succeeding, and for other purposes.

Introduced: September 10, 2012 See on congress.gov
Commerce Civil actions and liabilityComputers and information technologyIntellectual propertyLegal fees and court costs
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Aug 14, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.
Aug 1, 2012
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Aug 1, 2012
Introduced in House
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 Latest action August 14, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2012 - Amends federal patent law to allow a court, upon finding that a party does not have a reasonable likelihood of succeeding in an action disputing the validity or alleging infringement of a computer hardware or software patent, to award the recovery of full litigation costs to the prevailing party, including reasonable attorney's fees, other than the United States.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 1
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Welch, Peter
Vermont · Sep 12, 2012
Polis, Jared
· Sep 10, 2012
Chaffetz, Jason
· Aug 1, 2012
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6245: Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2012. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-6245/
MLA
"H.R. 6245: Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2012." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-6245/.
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H.R. 6245, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-6245/.
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