Political Quotes

“I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 24, strike line 3 and all that follows through page 25, line 12, and insert the following: (n) Effective Date.-- (1) In general.--The amendments made by this section-- (A) shall take effect 90 days after the date on which the President issues an Executive order containing the President's finding that major patenting authorities have adopted a grace period having substantially the same effect as that contained under the amendments made by this section; and (B) shall apply to all applications for patent that are filed on or after the effective date under subparagraph (A). (2) Definitions.--In this subsection: (A) Major patenting authorities.--The term ``major patenting authorities'' means at least the patenting authorities in Europe and Japan. (B) Grace period.--The term ``grace period'' means the 1- year period ending on the effective filing date of a claimed invention, during which disclosures of the subject matter by the inventor or a joint inventor, or by others who obtained the subject matter disclosed directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor, do not qualify as prior art to the claimed invention.…”