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[H. Res. 116 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                  House Calendar No. 17
105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 116

                          [Report No. 105-56]

 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 400) to amend title 35, 
  United States Code, with respect to patents, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 16, 1997

   Mr. McInnis, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following 
resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 400) to amend title 35, 
  United States Code, with respect to patents, and for other purposes.

    Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution 
the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule XXIII, declare the 
House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 400) to amend title 35, 
United States Code, with respect to patents, and for other purposes. 
The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of 
order against consideration of the bill are waived. General debate 
shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on the Judiciary. After general debate the bill shall be 
considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall be in 
order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment 
under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill, 
modified as specified in section 2 of this resolution. The committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, as modified, shall be 
considered as read. All points of order against the committee amendment 
in the nature of a substitute, as modified, are waived. During 
consideration of the bill for amendment, the Chairman of the Committee 
of the Whole may accord priority in recognition on the basis of whether 
the Member offering an amendment has caused it to be printed in the 
portion of the Congressional Record designated for that purpose in 
clause 6 of rule XXIII. Amendments so printed shall be considered as 
read. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1) postpone 
until a time during further consideration in the Committee of the Whole 
a request for a recorded vote on any amendment; and (2) reduce to five 
minutes the minimum time for electronic voting on any postponed 
question that follows another electronic vote without intervening 
business, provided that the minimum time for electronic voting on the 
first in any series of questions shall be fifteen minutes. At the 
conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the Committee 
shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may 
have been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House 
on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill or 
to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as modified. 
The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and 
amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except 
one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
    Sec. 2. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by 
the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in H.R. 400 is modified as 
follows:
            (a) page 14, line 19, after ``at'' insert ``a rate not to 
        exceed''; and
            (b) page 46, line 15, strike ``activities'' and insert in 
        lieu thereof ``activities, subject to the submission of a plan 
        to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate in 
        accordance with the procedures set forth in section 605 of the 
        Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and 
        Related Agencies Appropriations Act 1997''.
                                     





                                                  House Calendar No. 17

105th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                              H. RES. 116

                          [Report No. 105-56]

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                               RESOLUTION

 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 400) to amend title 35, 
  United States Code, with respect to patents, and for other purposes.

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                             April 16, 1997

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed`