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[113EH3309]
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(Original Signature of Member)
H. R. ll
114TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
To amend title 35, United States Code, and the Leahy-Smith America Invents
Act to make improvements and technical corrections, and for other purposes.
A BILL
To amend title 35, United States Code, and the LeahySmith America Invents Act to make improvements and
technical corrections, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
5 Innovation Act.
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(b) TABLE
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SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
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1 gress relating to patents, a party alleging infringement
2 shall include in the initial complaint, counterclaim, or
3 cross-claim for patent infringement, unless the informa4 tion is not reasonably accessible to such party, the fol5 lowing:
(1) An identification of each patent allegedly
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infringed.
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ticularity, if known, of
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AMENDMENT.The
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(b) CERTIFICATION
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RECOVERY.Upon motion
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1 of Congress relating to patents against another party, and
2 that subsequently unilaterally extends to such other party
3 a covenant not to sue for infringement with respect to the
4 patent or patents at issue, shall be deemed to be a nonpre5 vailing party (and the other party the prevailing party)
6 for purposes of this section, unless the party asserting
7 such claim would have been entitled, at the time that such
8 covenant was extended, to voluntarily dismiss the action
9 or claim without a court order under Rule 41 of the Fed10 eral Rules of Civil Procedure..
(2) CONFORMING
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(A) CONFORMING
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(c) JOINDER
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(B) REQUIRED
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(4) INTERESTED
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299A. Discovery in patent infringement action..
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(e) SENSE
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1 Demand letters sent should, at the least, include basic in2 formation about the patent in question, what is being in3 fringed, and how it is being infringed. Any actions or liti4 gation that stem from these types of purposely evasive de5 mand letters to end users should be considered a fraudu6 lent or deceptive practice and an exceptional circumstance
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1 particularity, to the extent possible following a reasonable
2 investigation or inquiry, how the product or process in3 fringes one or more claims of the patent.; and
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TESTIMONY.The court.
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(3) ULTIMATE
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GENERAL.Except
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15 such regulations as are necessary to establish a registra16 tion fee in an amount sufficient to recover the estimated
17 costs of administering subsections (b) through (e) of sec18 tion 290 of title 35, United States Code, as added by sub19 section (a), to facilitate the collection and maintenance of
20 the information required by such subsections, and to en21 sure the timely disclosure of such information to the pub22 lic.
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1 of this Act and shall apply to any action for which a com2 plaint is filed on or after such effective date.
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(2) SEPARATE
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15 relating to one or more of the common issues that gave
16 rise to the stay, or declines to prosecute through appeal
17 a final decision as to one or more of the common issues
18 that gave rise to the stay, the court may, upon grant of
19 a motion, determine that such consent judgment or
20 unappealed final decision shall not be binding on the cov21 ered customer with respect to one or more of such common
22 issues based on a showing that such an outcome would
23 unreasonably prejudice and be manifestly unjust to the
24 covered customer in light of the circumstances of the case.
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1 amended by striking the item relating to section 296 and
2 inserting the following:
296. Stay of action against customer..
OMMENDATIONS
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(C) ADDITIONAL
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(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
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(D) to examine the requirements placed on
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(A) An examination of patent quality at
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(2) AUTHORITY
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amendment
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(B) EFFECTIVE
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