This bill requires the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to submit an analysis, using existing resources, to specified congressional committees on:
the investment of small businesses in developing new and useful inventions and obtaining patents on them;
the importance of university technology transfer to small businesses;
the use of patent licensing arrangements by them;
the impact of patent ownership for small businesses on attracting outside investment, creating new jobs, protecting against foreign infringing goods, and competing against larger businesses; and
the impact on small businesses from patent-related demand letters and civil actions arising under federal law relating to patent infringement.
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Apr 15, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.