United States · Amendment · HAMDT

HAMDT 23 (105th)

An amendment to make several technical changes to the bill, including the following: 1. Allow small businesses and independent inventors to forestall the publication of their patents until three months after the second inspection and approval; 2. continue the current practice of charging small businesses and independent inventors a reduced fee; require that inventors be included as members of the proposed Patent and Trademark Office Advisory Board; 3. eliminates provisions in the bill allowing the Patent Office to borrow money from priveate entities to fund operations; 4. Allows inventor and university patent applicants to respond to Patent examiner's inquiries without reducing the intervening time from their 17-year patent protection; 5. noarrow the limitation on multiple patent re-examination requests from a single inventor to a single proceeding. from a single inventor to a single proceeding.