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`Thursday, April 14, 2011
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`House of Representatives
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`Committee on the Judiciary
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`The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:35 a.m.,
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`Room 2141, Rayburn Office Building, Hon. Lamar Smith
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`[chairman of the committee] presiding.
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`Present: Representatives Smith, Sensenbrenner, Coble,
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`Gallegly, Goodlatte, Lungren, Chabot, Issa, Pence, Forbes,
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`King, Franks, Gohmert, Jordan, Poe, Chaffetz, Griffin,
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`Scott, Watt, Lofgren, Jackson Lee, Waters, Cohen, Johnson,
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`Pierluisi, Quigley, Chu, Deutch, Sanchez, and Wasserman
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`Schultz.
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`Staff present:
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`Sean McLaughlin, Chief of Staff;
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`Sarah Kish, Clerk; Perry Apelbaum, Minority Staff Director;
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`and Chrystal Sheppard.
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`Chairman Smith.
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`Without objection,
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`the chair is authorized to declare
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`recesses of the committee at any time.
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`The c_erk will call the role to establish a quorum.
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`Ms. Kish. Mr. Smith?
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`Chairman Smith.
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`Present
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`Vs. Kish. Mr. Sensenbrenner?
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`Vr. Sensenbrenner. Here.
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`Vs. Kish. Mr. Coble?
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`Vr. Gohmert. Here
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`Vs. Kish. Mr. Jordan?
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`Vs. Kish. Ms. Lofgren?
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`Vs. Lofgren. Present.
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`s. Kish. Ms. Jackson Lee?
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`Present.
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`Vs. Kish. Ms. Waters?
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`Vr. Cohen?
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`Vs. Chu. Present.
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`Vs. Kish. Mr. Deutch?
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`Vs. Sanchez?
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`Vs. Wasserman Schultz?
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`Chairman Smith.
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`The gentleman from Arizona?
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`Mr. Quayle. Here.
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`Chairman Smith.
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`The gentleman from Illinois? Oh,
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`have you recorded yourself? Okay.
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`Chairman Smith.
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`How is the gentleman from Michigan
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`the gentlewoman from California recorded?
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`Ms. Kish. Not recorded, sir.
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`Chairman Smith.
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`The gentlewoman from California?
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`Ms. Sanchez. Present.
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`Chairman Smith. And the gentleman from Michigan?
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`Mr. Conyers. Present.
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`Chairman Smith.
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`Is present.
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`The c_erk will report.
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`Chairman Smith.
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`89 will proceed.
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`Pursuant to notice,
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`I now call up H.R. 1249 for
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`purposes of markup.
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`The clerk will report the bill.
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`Ms. Kish.
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`“H.R. 1249,
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`to amend Title 35, United
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`States Code,
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`to provide for patent reform.”
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`Chairman Smith. Without objection,
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`the bill will be
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`I will recognize myself in opposition to the
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`This amendment expands the inter partes review program
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`from 12 months after the fillng of a civil action to 30 days
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`after the Markman hearing.
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`"his amendment could create an
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`preventing the serial harassment of patent holders. This
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`bill represents a delicate balance, and making such a core
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`change to the deadline may turn the inter partes program
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`into a tool for litigation gamesmanship rather than a
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`For those reasons,
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`I oppose the amendment.
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`Are there other members who wish to be heard on this
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`Chairman Smith.
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`If not, we will vote on it. All
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`Mr. Berman. Mr. Chairman,
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`The program forces the party to make a decision, and if you
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`decide to initiate inter partes, you need to bring in your A
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`Inter partes review is not meant to simply be a
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`litigation, we must maintain the higher threshold. And for
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`Mr. Berman. Yes, Mr. Chairman.
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`favor of the Chu amendment.
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`The Patent Office has made it
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`amendment, as opposed to the one in the current bill and in
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`They have been working with that threshold all the
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`One of the major purposes of patent reform was to have
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`The current _anguage on the threshold is too
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`restrictive in terms of a_lowing those patents to be
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`Mr. Conyers.
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`Permit me to announce that we are losing
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`Dr. Chrystal Sheppard, wqo has been with us three and a half
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`years, sitting to my left.
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`She is the only lawyer that I
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`know that has a Ph.D.
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`in molecular bio_ogy. And she goes to
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`the University of Nebraska's law schoo_. And we will miss
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`Chairman Smith. We wish her well.
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`Chairman Smith. Good luck, my dear.
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`Ms. Sheppard.
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`Thank you.
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`Chairman Smith. And that is a good conclusion. And,
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`in fact, we are adjourned.
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`[Whereupon, at 4:19 p.m.,
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