Indiana House Bill 1102 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: Passed on May 5 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-05-05 - Public Law 172
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Patent protection. Prohibits a person from asserting a claim of patent infringement in bad faith. Provides that a court may, upon motion, require a person to post a bond if the target establishes a reasonable likelihood that the person has made an assertion of patent infringement in bad faith. Establishes remedies and damages. Exempts certain: (1) approved postsecondary educational institutions; (2) technology transfer organizations owned by or affiliated with approved postsecondary educational institutions; and (3) licensees holding patents from postsecondary educational institutions or technology transfer organizations owned by or affiliated with postsecondary educational institutions; from the provisions regarding bad faith

Patent protection. Prohibits a person from asserting a claim of patent infringement in bad faith. Provides that a court may, upon motion, require a person to post a bond if the target establishes a reasonable likelihood that the person has made an assertion of patent infringement in bad faith. Establishes remedies and damages. Exempts certain: (1) approved postsecondary educational institutions; (2) technology transfer organizations owned by or affiliated with approved postsecondary educational institutions; and (3) licensees holding patents from postsecondary educational institutions or technology transfer organizations owned by or affiliated with postsecondary educational institutions; from the provisions regarding bad faith

Sen. Eric Koch [R]	Rep. Christina Hale [D]	Rep. Heath VanNatter [R]	Rep. Casey Cox [R]
Sen. Brent Steele [R]	Sen. Randall Head [R]

2015-04-29 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 95 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2015-04-29 - Senate - Senate - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 45 N: 1 NV: 3 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-04-09 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-03-30 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-16 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 95 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2015-02-09 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-05	House	Public Law 172
2015-05-05	House	Signed by the Governor
2015-05-04	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2015-04-29	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2015-04-29	House	Signed by the Speaker
2015-04-29	Senate	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 547: yeas 45, nays 1
2015-04-29	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 573: yeas 95, nays 1
2015-04-20	Senate	Senate Advisors appointed: Bray and Lanane
2015-04-20	Senate	Senate Conferees appointed: Steele and Taylor
2015-04-16	House	House Advisors appointed: VanNatter, Cox, Bauer and DeLaney
2015-04-16	House	House Conferees appointed: Koch and Hale
2015-04-14	House	Motion to dissent filed
2015-04-14	House	House dissented from Senate Amendments
2015-04-10	Senate	Returned to the House with amendments
2015-04-09	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 393: yeas 48, nays 1
2015-04-07	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-04-02	Senate	Senator Head added as second sponsor
2015-03-31	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-02-24	Senate	First Reading: Referred to committee on Civil Law
2015-02-17	House	Referred to the Senate
2015-02-16	House	Senator Steele added as sponsor
2015-02-16	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 133: yeas 95, nays 1
2015-02-12	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-02-10	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-02-09	House	Representative Cox added as coauthor
2015-01-22	House	Representative VanNatter added as coauthor
2015-01-15	House	Representative Hale added as coauthor
2015-01-08	House	First Reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2015-01-08	House	Authored by Representative Koch

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/house/1102/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/6/9/d/d69db90a/HB1102.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/b/e/1/5be1e18c/HB1102.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/a/b/1/dab12613/HB1102.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/f/8/b/df8b2068/HB1102.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/8/e/d/28ed957b/HB1102.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/3/0/a/a30ac917/HB1102.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/e/6/5/ae65c753/HB1102.04.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/7/0/1/87011dd5/HB1102.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/b/1/b/9b1b739c/HB1102.133.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/0/2/e/c02ee7ba/HB1102.02.COMH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/3/8/c/838c90eb/HB1102.393.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/9/6/f/f96fcc17/HB1102.547.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/9/3/7/3937aa47/HB1102.573.pdf