Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, the point is this. We are talking about a very, very limited circumstance. I think to some extent what we may be patenting-- and maybe you cannot patent this, maybe we would copyright it--examples of horrible and extremist that we can come up with that might possibly under certain circumstances create a problem. The gentleman from California has had one. Here is what I think he is positing. You apply for a patent. Your patent application is published. You subsequently decide that you are not going to get the patent, so you withdraw it and have you then lost your right to protect it under trade secrets? I do not think it would do any violence to the bill in that circumstance where no one had previously suggested to say that no, you would not lose that. I would be glad to do that. I would be glad to support an amendment in a subsequent part of the process that said if in fact the only thing that happened was that you were published and you were not going to get a patent, that that would not destroy your limited right of trade secrets. That one does not bother me at all. It is the first I had heard of it in all my conversations with the gentleman.”