Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-866
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-05-06
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Financial services and investments

Intellectual property
Latest action: action_date: 2013-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-05-06
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to remove the eight-year sunset provision with respect to the transitional post-grant review program available to review the validity of covered business method patents, thereby making the program permanent. </p> <p>Expands the term &quot;covered business method patent&quot; to include a patent that claims a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing or other operations used in the practice, administration, or management of any enterprise, product, or service, except technological inventions. (Current law limits the program to financial products or services.)</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 866 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 6, 2013 Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To make improvements to the transitional program for covered business method patents, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013 . 2. Improvements to transitional program for covered business method patents Section 18 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ( 35 U.S.C. 321 note) is amended— (1) by striking subsection (a)(3); and (2) in subsection (d)(1), by striking a financial product or and inserting an enterprise, product, or .