S 963
114th Congress
Senate
Commerce
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Competition and antitrust
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Intellectual property
Licensing and registrations
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization
Small Business Innovation Impact Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 15, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Apr 15, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Small Business Innovation Impact Act
This bill requires the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to submit an analysis, using existing resources, to specified congressional committees on:
- the investment of small businesses in developing new and useful inventions and obtaining patents on them;
- the importance of university technology transfer to small businesses;
- the use of patent licensing arrangements by them;
- the impact of patent ownership for small businesses on attracting outside investment, creating new jobs, protecting against foreign infringing goods, and competing against larger businesses; and
- the impact on small businesses from patent-related demand letters and civil actions arising under federal law relating to patent infringement.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1