To amend title 35, United States Code, with respect to applications for process patents.

Summary

Considers as nonobvious a process using or resulting in a product that is novel and nonobvious under provisions of Federal patent law if: (1) claims to the process and the product are contained in either the same patent application or in separate application having the same effective filing date; and (2) the product, and the process at the time it was invented, were owned by the same person or subject to an obligation of assignment to the same person. Requires a patent issued on such process to: (1) contain the claims to the product used in or made by that process; or (2) if such product is claimed in another patent, be set to expire on the same date as such other patent.

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• Engrossed Amendment Senate (text)

  Engrossed Amendment Senate · EN · 6 October 1994

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• Engrossed Amendment Senate (PDF)

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 6 October 1994

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• Received in Senate (text)

  Received in Senate · EN · 21 September 1994

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• Received in Senate (PDF)

  Received in Senate · EN · 21 September 1994

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• Engrossed in House (text)

  Engrossed in House · EN · 20 September 1994

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN · 20 September 1994

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 28 April 1994

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• Introduced in House

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