Dana Rohrabacher: “I rise in strong support, strong support of the Coble amendment. The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Coble) and I…”

“I rise in strong support, strong support of the Coble amendment. The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Coble) and I have worked diligently over the years, I would say that we probably put in thousands of hours over these last four years, in dealing with the patent issue, and I am very proud to stand with the gentleman now, and I am very proud that over our years of working on this issue, that we, last year, came together in support of a patent bill that will dramatically improve America's ability to protect our innovators. Part of that patent bill, which passed, and I believe it passed almost unanimously, I mean overwhelmingly, I think maybe only 40 or 50 members voted against it, but in that bill was a commitment by this Congress to keep all of the funds that were generated by the Patent Office in the Patent Office, so that those people who were paying patent fees and using the patent system, since it was their resources that they were putting into the Patent Office and they were using the Patent Office's services, that those resources could then be used to make sure the system was efficient and effective, and that the Patent Office could be the best Patent Office in the world, and that our innovators would have the protection they need in order to move forward and to change our society and to uplift America's competitiveness and uplift our standard of living.”