S 139
112th Congress
Senate
Commerce
Intellectual property
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Equal Access to Tax Planning Act
Introduced: January 25, 2011
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 25, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 25, 2011
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S221-222)
Jan 25, 2011
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Equal Access to Tax Planning Act - Deems any strategy for reducing, avoiding, or deferring tax liability insufficient to differentiate a claimed invention from the prior art when evaluating specified conditions of patentability under federal patent law.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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