US Congress House Bill 2766 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 22 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-09-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Stopping the Offensive Use of Patents Act or the STOP Act - Amends the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to remove the eight-year sunset provision with respect to the transitional post-grant review program available to review the validity of covered business method patents, thereby making the program permanent. Expands the term "covered business method patent" to include a patent that claims a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing or other operations used in the practice, administration, or management of any enterprise, product, or service, except technological inventions. (Current law limits the program to financial products or services.) Requires the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property) to work with and support intellectual property law associations throughout the United States, within established pro bono programs, to assist financially under-resourced resellers, users, implementers, distributors, or customers of an allegedly infringing product or process.

STOP Act

Rep. Darrell Issa [R-CA]	Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-09-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
2013-07-22	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

SB866 (Related) 2013-05-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2766/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr2766/BILLS-113hr2766ih.pdf