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`113TH CONGRESS
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`S. 866
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`To make improvements to the transitional program for covered business
`method patents, and for other purposes.
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`IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
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`MAY 6, 2013
`Mr. SCHUMER introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
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`A BILL
`To make improvements to the transitional program for
`covered business method patents, and for other purposes.
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`Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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`tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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`SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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`This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Patent Quality Im-
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`provement Act of 2013’’.
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`SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENTS TO TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM FOR
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`COVERED BUSINESS METHOD PATENTS.
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`Section 18 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
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`(35 U.S.C. 321 note) is amended—
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`(1) by striking subsection (a)(3); and
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`JAZZ EXHIBIT 2015
`Par Pharm., Inc. et al. (Petitioners) v. Jazz Pharms., Inc. (Patent Owner)
`Case CBM2014-00151
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`(2) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘a financial
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`product or’’ and inserting ‘‘an enterprise, product,
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`or’’.
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