Transgenic Animal Patent Reform Act of 1989: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1556 ... September 13 and 14, 1989, Volume 4 |
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Page 476 - Changes in Existing Law Made bt the Bill, As Reported In compliance with clause 3 of Rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman) : TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS CHAPTER 1— GENERAL 101. Definitions For the purposes of this...
Page 477 - The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Page 81 - In the language of the statute, any person who "invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent," subject to the conditions and requirements of the law.
Page 4 - Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Page 477 - An element in a claim for a combination may be expressed as a means or step for performing a specified function without the recital of structure, material, or acts in support thereof, and such claim shall be construed to cover the correspondAppendix A: Selected Provisions of the Patent Act ing structure, material, or acts described in the specification and equivalents thereof.
Page 404 - Moreover, a powerful judiciary, as Justice Felix Frankfurter once observed, is necessarily a small judiciary." See also Hearings on the State of the Judiciary and Access to Justice before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of Justice of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 95th Cong., 1st Sess.
Page 444 - plant patents' are available for asexually propagated plants). Several countries are now party to the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) which aims to harmonise national practices as far as possible (International Convention, 1978).
Page 645 - Infringement of patent (a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses or sells any patented invention, within the United States during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.
Page 461 - June 20, 1980, by the General Secretaries of the National Council of Churches, the Synagogue Council of America, and the United States Catholic Conference.
Page 440 - Congress shall have the power .... to promote the progress of science, and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.