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Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013

S. 866 · 113th Congress · May 6, 2013 · Lineage

A BILL

To make improvements to the transitional program for covered business method patents, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013”.

Sec. 2 Improvements to transitional program for covered business method patents

Section 18 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (35 U.S.C. 321 note) is amended—
(1)
by striking subsection (a)(3); and
(2)
in subsection (d)(1), by striking “a financial product or” and inserting “an enterprise, product, or”.