§ 831r. Patents; access to Patent and Trademark Office and right to copy patents; compensation to patentees

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1933

   Pub. L. 73–32 § 19 · 48 Stat. 58

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 831r

   May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 19, 48 Stat. 68

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 19, 48 Stat. 68

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 19. The Corporation, as an instrumentality and agency of the Government of the United States for the purpose of executing its constitutional powers, shall have access to the Patent Office of the United States for the purpose of studying, ascertaining, and copying all methods, formulae, and scientific information (not including access to pending applications for patents) necessary to enable the Corporation to use and employ the most efficacious and economical process for the production of fixed nitrogen, or any essential ingredient of fertilizer, or any method of improving and cheapening the production of hydroelectric power, and any owner of a Remedy of patent owner for infringement. patent whose patent rights may have been thus in any way copied, used, infringed, or employed by the exercise of this authority by the Corporation shall have as the exclusive remedy a cause of action against the Corporation to be instituted and prosecuted on the equity side of the appropriate district court of the United States, for the recovery of reasonable compensation for such infringement. The Commissioner of Patents shall furnish to the Corporation, at its request and without payment of fees, copies of documents on file Proviso. Limitation. in his office: Provided, That the benefits of this section shall not apply to any art, machine, method of manufacture, or composition of matter, discovered or invented by such employee during the time of his employment or service with the Corporation or with the Government of the United States.

2. 1999

   District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2000

   Pub. L. 106–113 div. B § 1000(a)(9)(tIV)(s4732)(b)(7) · 113 Stat. 1501

   1. Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 831r

      Pub. L. 106–113 substituted “United States Patent and Trademark Office” for “Patent Office of the United States”

   2. Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 831r

      Pub. L. 106–113 substituted “Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office” for “Commissioner of Patents”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 106–113 substituted “United States Patent and Trademark Office” for “Patent Office of the United States” and “Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office” for “Commissioner of Patents”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 106–113 effective 4 months after Nov. 29, 1999, see section 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4731] of Pub. L. 106–113, set out as a note under section 1 of Title 35, Patents.

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