S 866
113th Congress
Senate
Commerce
Financial services and investments
Intellectual property
Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013
Introduced: May 6, 2013
Introduced by:
Schumer, Charles E.
Democratic
· New York
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May 6, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
May 6, 2013
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to remove the eight-year sunset provision with respect to the transitional post-grant review program available to review the validity of covered business method patents, thereby making the program permanent.
Expands the term "covered business method patent" to include a patent that claims a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing or other operations used in the practice, administration, or management of any enterprise, product, or service, except technological inventions. (Current law limits the program to financial products or services.)
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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