Volume 54 · 724
Public Law 76–515
To limit the importation of products made, produced, processed, or mined under process covered by unexpired valid United States patents, and for other purposes.
Approved July 2, 1940
Statutory text
AN ACT
To limit the importation of products made, produced, processed, or mined under process covered by unexpired valid United States patents, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the importation hereafter for use, sale, or exchange of a product made, produced, processed, or mined under or by means of a process covered by the claims of any unexpired valid United States letters patent, whether issued heretofore or hereafter, shall have the same status for the
purposes of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 as the importation of any product or article covered by the claims of any unexpired valid United States letters patent.
Approved, July 2, 1940.