Authorizes the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks to accept a later payment for patent maintenance fees made within 24 months after the six-month grace period if the delay is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner to have been unintentional.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 102-993.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 102-993.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 565.
Mr. Hughes moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate, read twice.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 102-444.
Became Public Law No: 102-444.
Enacted as Public Law 102-444
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