PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
Congressional Research Service
Version 00 · Introduced in House · Apr 13, 2000
International Patent Act of 2000 - Makes the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) responsible for: (1) establishing at the PTO a special United States-Generalized System of Preference (US-GSP) country office for official notification of issuance of patents which have official status for both the U.S. and a specific GSP country law; (2) insuring that dual issuance of patents under the GSP country law be made according to U.S. standards and valid under U.S. law; and (3) insuring that all examination and search duties for the grant of U.S. letters patent and specific GSP country patents be performed by U.S. examiners who are U.S. citizens.Requires a trust fund of fifteen percent charged from fees, with a special handling fee, to be set aside in the name of a GSP country for its use in establishing or enhancing its patent system.Requires the United States, an examining and patent search country in compliance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), to make PTO patent data base computer search facilities available, for a fee, in each GSP country.Directs the Small Business Administration to provide information to GSP countries on the steps required to create a small business based on a patent issued to an individual-small business under the US-GSP Patent Notification Office.Directs the Agency for International Development to develop a program to instruct GSP countries in the methods of structuring a patent system to enhance economic development, with the U.S. Dole-Bayh Act as a model illustrating the benefits accruing to universities from intellectual property.
People & committees
Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3] · R–NJ
Legislative record
A procedural vote is different from passage. Passage in one chamber does not establish enactment. Explore the glossary.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Primary sources
Text links open the official source. We currently store references to these documents.
No related bills are listed in this snapshot. This does not establish whether the proposal has appeared in earlier Congresses.
Source last updated: Aug 20, 2025. Consult Congress.gov for the current record.
AI Conversation Starters
Choose a perspective, copy a prompt, and paste it into your preferred AI. Each prompt includes the bill version and available official source links, and asks for counterarguments as well as supporting evidence.
Analyze H.R.4331 as objectively as possible. Explain its main provisions, who would be affected, possible benefits and harms, implementation, exceptions, and uncertainties. Present the strongest arguments for and against it, and identify evidence needed to assess its public impact.
Examine H.R.4331 through a progressive lens, focusing on fairness, access, economic inequality, and effects on vulnerable communities. Explain potential benefits, costs, and unintended consequences. Consider the strongest counterarguments and distinguish stated goals from demonstrated outcomes.
Examine H.R.4331 through a conservative lens, focusing on fiscal responsibility, institutional stability, federalism, and the scope of government. Explain potential benefits, costs, and unintended consequences. Consider the strongest counterarguments and any provisions that challenge this perspective.
Examine H.R.4331 through a civil-liberties and limited-government lens. Consider individual rights, privacy, voluntary choice, accountability, and government power. Explain tradeoffs, possible safeguards, and the strongest counterarguments without assuming the proposal is beneficial or harmful.