S. 3089 · 111th Congress

A bill to require a study and report by the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration regarding the effects of proposed changes in patent law.

Stage
In committee
Introduced
2010-03-09
Latest action
2010-03-09 · Introduced in Senate

Summary

Directs the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to study, and report to the congressional small business and judiciary committees on, the effects on the ability of small businesses to obtain patents that would result from changing from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file invention priority system under federal patent law.