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And if the gentlewoman will continue to yield, but the burden of proving that is upon the applicant. So in order to get the benefit of the tacked-on time, I have to show that it was not my fault.

I understand that, but the burden is to show by the patent applicant that the fault was the Patent Office's. If that burden has not been met, if things just chug along in their dear sweet time and it takes longer than 3 years, it is the…

There were things in the bill, however, that the universities do not like, like the reexamination procedure. They think they have a patent and then suddenly under this bill it can be opened up for reexamination in ways and in processes not…

I would just conclude, and I sure do appreciate the gentleman yielding, that overwhelmingly the commercializers are with the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Coble], but overwhelmingly the inventors are with the gentleman from California…

That has been my observation, though I appreciate the gentleman might have a different one. I think that distinction speaks volumes to what the inventor sees as a hurt to his or her entrepreneurial activity.

So disappointed, they then choose to go the trade secret route. So that the choice is not only at the beginning but along the path when it does not look like you are going to get a patent. In that context the average time of a patent being…

If somebody under present law wants to try for a patent and wants to keep that going until they are fairly sure they will not get it, they can still go the trade secret route, but under House Resolution 400, come 18 months, they cannot.

It was for exactly that reason I never made the argument about the burdensome lawyers. My argument was different. I wonder what the gentleman's response might be to that. I understand our legal rights are not changed by H.R. 400 in this…

Let me be very clear. They do not embrace the Rohrabacher substitute; they do not embrace the bill introduced by the gentleman from North Carolina. It seems they do not want a change. And I cannot blame them for that attitude. If we are…

If we file overseas, we put ourselves into the overseas system. If we file overseas, we put ourselves into the European system. And if we choose not to, because we prefer the American system, and for good reason we prefer it, because it…

Mr. Chairman, we have, I think, very clearly identified what is wrong with H.R. 400 and that it is not solved by the manager's amendment. Every applicant for a patent who wishes to get that patent, even before they get the patent, is…

My colleague from Ohio is quite right, but even more right than one might think; because what is the lawsuit about? Under H.R. 400, it is permitted to disclose. It is required to disclose. So if a foreigner takes that and uses that, what…

Let me begin by saying that our goal, I hope our goal here, is to keep the drugs off of the streets and out of the homes of America. Decertifying Mexico, however, dampens our cooperation with Mexico, and I fear will do just the opposite of…

I rise to make a matter of legislative history what those amendments were and why I offered them, why I believe our colleagues on the Committee on International Relations accepted them, and why I hope today our colleagues on the floor of…

He is still going to, I hope, veto this. But the point remains that back when we debated it earlier and today, law enforcement organizations, the school board associations, a lot of folks are saying this is not a practical bill, this is…

I rise in support of the Mollohan-Fox amendment and in opposition to the bill's dramatic cuts to Legal Services.

As President Clinton has said, the current welfare system is broken and must be replaced. This is true for the sake of the people who are trapped by it as well as for the taxpayers who pay for it. But when we began to consider reforming…

We are adding to the information store. There is no way we can do harm by providing additional sources of information. As my good friend from Utah just admitted, the present system is so bad we have been estimating wrongly every time. In…

Is not the point of the gentleman's chart that under present methods of estimation, CBO has it wrong every year that he shows us?

It may be that my good friend and colleague has been referring to an earlier version of the bill because the majority leader is not in this bill at all. So the gentleman's opening comment worrying about the delegation of authority to the…

Just one point: What does this amendment provide? It removes the language by the gentleman from Wisconsin. That language does not say what was reported in the colloquy between the gentleman from Wisconsin and the gentleman from Minnesota…

The procurement code reads, in article I section 3: ``Where entities, in the context of procurement covered under this Agreement, require enterprises not included in Appendix 1 to award contracts in accordance with particular requirements…

The Card and Krueger study is inaccurate and unreliable. It has just been referenced, and we have to set the record straight. Nobel prize winning economist Gary Becker, on the Card and Krueger New Jersey study, concluded that: ``The…

So the example that I gave still applies, that there is not always a need for physical force in order for these enhanced penalties to attach. I think the gentleman left the impression that, unless someone went out there and committed…