S 927
115th Congress
Senate
Commerce
Foreign aid and international relief
Intellectual property
Patents for Humanity Program Improvement Act
Introduced: April 25, 2017
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Became law
Apr 25, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Apr 25, 2017
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Patents for Humanity Program Improvement Act
This bill allows the holder or successor of an acceleration certificate issued pursuant to the Patents for Humanity Program (a pilot awards program established by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] entitling awardees to accelerate certain USPTO proceedings for patented technologies addressing humanitarian needs among an impoverished population or for further research on humanitarian technologies) to transfer, including by sale, the entitlement to such certificate to another person.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1