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Latest Action: 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. Bill TextTo amend title 17, United States Code, to provide protection for fashion design. 4/25/2007--Introduced. Design Piracy Prohibition Act - Extends copyright protection to fashion designs. Excludes from such protection fashion designs that are embodied in a useful article that was made public by the designer or owner more than three months before the registration of copyright application. Gives fashion designs copyright protection for three years.Declares that is not infringement to make, have made, import, sell, or distribute any article embodying a design which was created without knowledge or reasonable grounds to know that protection for the design is claimed and was copied from such protected design.Extends the definition of infringing article to include any article the design of which has been copied from an image of a protected design without the consent of the owner.Applies the doctrines of secondary infringement and secondary liability to actions [...] show full description
Latest Action: 07/06/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo repeal the reduction in Medicare payment for therapeutic shoes and inserts for individuals with diabetes effected by section 627 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. 6/27/2007--Introduced. Medicare Diabetic Footwear Quality Restoration Act of 2005 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to terminate the reduction in Medicare payment for orthopedic shoes and inserts furnished to individuals with diabetes.
Latest Action: 08/02/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Bill TextA bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to provide protection for fashion design. 8/2/2007--Introduced. Design Piracy Prohibition Act - Extends copyright protection to fashion designs. Excludes from such protection fashion designs that are embodied in a useful article that was made public by the designer or owner more than three months before the registration of copyright application. Gives fashion designs copyright protection for three years.Declares that is not infringement to make, have made, import, sell, or distribute any article embodying a design which was created without knowledge or reasonable grounds to know that protection for the design is claimed and was copied from such protected design. Extends the definition of infringing article to include any article the design of which has been copied from an image of a protected design without the consent of the owner. Provides that a fashion design shall not be deemed to have been copied from a protected [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Business, Child safety, Children, Clothing, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Consumer protection, Consumers, Executive departments, Imports, Independent regulatory commissions, Law, Product safety, Standards, Trade
Latest Action: 11/08/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. Bill TextTo direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to investigate the potential safety dangers in children's clothing and to promulgate any necessary consumer product safety rules regarding such clothing. 9/27/2007--Introduced. Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to identify potential safety hazards which exist in children's clothing, focusing on imported children's clothing, and to promulgate a consumer product safety rule establishing any necessary safety standards. Defines "children's clothing" as any article of clothing, including shoes, intended to be worn or used by children under the age of 8, or for which the wearing by a child under the age of 8 is foreseeable.
Also tagged in: Business, Caribbean area, Haiti, Latin America, Plastics, Poverty, Rubber, Tariff, Tariff preferences, Trade, Welfare
Latest Action: 11/15/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify the tariffs on certain footwear. 11/15/2007--Introduced. Affordable Footwear Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the elimination of duty on certain imported footwear would provide significant benefit to U.S. consumers, particularly lower-income families. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain footwear (including children's shoes) made of rubber or plastics that are imported into the United States. Amends the Caribbean Basic Economic Recovery Act to provide footwear imported directly from Haiti into the United States with the same preferential treatment that is provided to certain imported footwear under the Dominican Republic-Central American-United States Free Trade Agreement.
Also tagged in: Business, Caribbean area, Haiti, Latin America, Plastics, Poverty, Rubber, Tariff, Tariff preferences, Trade, Welfare
Latest Action: 10/23/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify the tariffs on certain footwear. 10/23/2007--Introduced. Affordable Footwear Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the elimination of duty on certain imported footwear would provide significant benefit to U.S. consumers, particularly lower-income families. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain footwear (including children's shoes) made of rubber or plastics that are imported into the United States. Amends the Caribbean Basic Economic Recovery Act to provide footwear imported directly from Haiti into the United States with the same preferential treatment that is provided to certain imported footwear under the Dominican Republic-Central American-United States Free Trade Agreement.
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Also tagged in: Business, Caribbean area, Haiti, Latin America, Plastics, Poverty, Rubber, Tariff, Tariff preferences, Trade, Welfare
Latest Action: 11/15/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify the tariffs on certain footwear. 11/15/2007--Introduced. Affordable Footwear Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the elimination of duty on certain imported footwear would provide significant benefit to U.S. consumers, particularly lower-income families. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain footwear (including children's shoes) made of rubber or plastics that are imported into the United States. Amends the Caribbean Basic Economic Recovery Act to provide footwear imported directly from Haiti into the United States with the same preferential treatment that is provided to certain imported footwear under the Dominican Republic-Central American-United States Free Trade Agreement.
Also tagged in: Business, Caribbean area, Haiti, Latin America, Plastics, Poverty, Rubber, Tariff, Tariff preferences, Trade, Welfare
Latest Action: 10/23/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify the tariffs on certain footwear. 10/23/2007--Introduced. Affordable Footwear Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the elimination of duty on certain imported footwear would provide significant benefit to U.S. consumers, particularly lower-income families. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain footwear (including children's shoes) made of rubber or plastics that are imported into the United States. Amends the Caribbean Basic Economic Recovery Act to provide footwear imported directly from Haiti into the United States with the same preferential treatment that is provided to certain imported footwear under the Dominican Republic-Central American-United States Free Trade Agreement.
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Business, Child safety, Children, Clothing, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Consumer protection, Consumers, Executive departments, Imports, Independent regulatory commissions, Law, Product safety, Standards, Trade
Latest Action: 11/08/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. Bill TextTo direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to investigate the potential safety dangers in children's clothing and to promulgate any necessary consumer product safety rules regarding such clothing. 9/27/2007--Introduced. Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to identify potential safety hazards which exist in children's clothing, focusing on imported children's clothing, and to promulgate a consumer product safety rule establishing any necessary safety standards. Defines "children's clothing" as any article of clothing, including shoes, intended to be worn or used by children under the age of 8, or for which the wearing by a child under the age of 8 is foreseeable.
Latest Action: 08/02/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Bill TextA bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to provide protection for fashion design. 8/2/2007--Introduced. Design Piracy Prohibition Act - Extends copyright protection to fashion designs. Excludes from such protection fashion designs that are embodied in a useful article that was made public by the designer or owner more than three months before the registration of copyright application. Gives fashion designs copyright protection for three years.Declares that is not infringement to make, have made, import, sell, or distribute any article embodying a design which was created without knowledge or reasonable grounds to know that protection for the design is claimed and was copied from such protected design. Extends the definition of infringing article to include any article the design of which has been copied from an image of a protected design without the consent of the owner. Provides that a fashion design shall not be deemed to have been copied from a protected [...] show full description
Latest Action: 07/06/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo repeal the reduction in Medicare payment for therapeutic shoes and inserts for individuals with diabetes effected by section 627 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. 6/27/2007--Introduced. Medicare Diabetic Footwear Quality Restoration Act of 2005 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to terminate the reduction in Medicare payment for orthopedic shoes and inserts furnished to individuals with diabetes.
Latest Action: 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. Bill TextTo amend title 17, United States Code, to provide protection for fashion design. 4/25/2007--Introduced. Design Piracy Prohibition Act - Extends copyright protection to fashion designs. Excludes from such protection fashion designs that are embodied in a useful article that was made public by the designer or owner more than three months before the registration of copyright application. Gives fashion designs copyright protection for three years.Declares that is not infringement to make, have made, import, sell, or distribute any article embodying a design which was created without knowledge or reasonable grounds to know that protection for the design is claimed and was copied from such protected design.Extends the definition of infringing article to include any article the design of which has been copied from an image of a protected design without the consent of the owner.Applies the doctrines of secondary infringement and secondary liability to actions [...] show full description
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