H.R.1908 - Federal Government

Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 348.

Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

Rule H. Res. 636 passed House.

Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 636.

House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 636 and Rule XVIII.

The Speaker designated the Honorable Hilda L. Solis to act as Chairwoman of the Committee.

H.AMDT.789 Amendment (A001) offered by Mr. Conyers. An amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report 110-319 to incorporate a number of revisions including revisions to the sections on damages, willful infringement, prior user rights, post-grant review, venue, inequitable conduct, applicant disclosure information and inventor's oath requirements, among others.

H.AMDT.790 Amendment (A002) offered by Mr. Issa. An amendment numbered 2 printed in House Report 110-319 to eliminate provisions in the law permitting certain applicants to delay or prevent publication of their applications. The amendment would strike that provision and permit applicants to delay publication until the later of (1) three months after a second PTO decision or (2) 18 months after the filing date.

H.AMDT.791 Amendment (A003) offered by Mr. Issa. An amendment numbered 3 printed in House Report 110-319 to change the section relating to United States Patent and Trademark Office regulatory authority by adding the requirement that Congress be provided 60 days to review regulations before they take effect. Congress may bar implementation of the regulation by enactment of a joint resolution of disapproval.

H.AMDT.792 Amendment (A004) offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee (TX). An amendment numbered 4 printed in House Report 110-319 to require the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to conduct a study of patent damage awards in cases from at least 1990 to the present where such awards have been based on a reasonable royalty under Section 284 of Title 35 of the United States Code. The Director of the PTO would be required to submit the findings to Congress no later than one year after the Act's enactment.

H.AMDT.793 Amendment (A005) offered by Mr. Pence. An amendment numbered 5 printed in House Report 110-319 to prohibit a post-grant review from being instituted based upon the best mode requirement of patent law.

H.AMDT.793 On agreeing to the Pence amendment (A005) Agreed to by voice vote.

H.AMDT.790 On agreeing to the Issa amendment (A002) Agreed to by voice vote.

H.AMDT.791 On agreeing to the Issa amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote.

H.AMDT.792 On agreeing to the Jackson-Lee (TX) amendment (A004) Agreed to by voice vote.

H.AMDT.789 On agreeing to the Conyers amendment (A001) Agreed to by recorded vote: 263 - 136 (Roll no. 862).

The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 1908.

The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

On passage Passed by recorded vote: 220 - 175 (Roll no. 863).