A bill to protect patent owners from importation into the United States of goods made overseas by use of a United States patented process.
Process Patent Amendment of 1985 - Amends the patent laws to make it an infringement of patent to use, sell, or import into the United States without authority a product produced by a patented process.
Directs the Department of Commerce to report to the Congress annually for five years on the effect such restriction has on the importation of ingredients for U.S. manufacturing.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Referred to Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks.
Committee on Judiciary requested executive comment from Justice Department, Commerce Department (Patent and Trademark Office).
Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 99-499.
Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks. Approved for full committee consideration with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
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