AIPLA Statements given in the 110th Congress

Written Statement Before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives on Oversight Hearing on The United States Patent and Trademark Office, by Alan Kasper, February 27, 2008 (PDF)
Letter offered in support of S. 1638, which would raise the salaries of federal judges, filed January 30, 2008. (PDF)
Letter to Senate Leadership urging the deletion of Section 123 in S. 1145 Section, which mandates that PTO Director require patent applicants to conduct a search and prepare a patentability analysis for each patent application they file. Sent November 30, 2007. Letter to Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Letter to House and Senate Leadership regarding an amendment to end PTO fee diversion by establishing a revolving fund sent August 13, 2007. (Letter to The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Letter to The Honorable John A. Boehner; Letter to The Honorable Harry M. Reid, and Letter to The Honorable Mitch McConnell)
AIPLA’s statement for the record on the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks, the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, and the Patent Law Treaty and Regulations Under the Patent Law Treaty, filed July 23, 2007. (PDF)
AIPLA's views on the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks adopted on March 27, 2007 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of a Revised Trademark Law Treaty, filed May 28, 2007. (PDF)
Letter offered in support of HR 2336, which would allow the USPTO to retain and use all of its fee revenues, filed May 28, 2007 (PDF)
Statement before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate on Patent Process, by Michael K. Kirk, May 1, 2007 (PDF)

AIPLA Statements given in the 109th Congress

Statement submitted on issues relating to the patenting of tax advice before the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures of the House Committee on Ways and Means, July 13, 2006 (PDF)
Letter offered in support of H.R. 683, the Trademark Dilution Improvement Act of 2005, filed April 25, 2006 (PDF)
Letters to The Honorable Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader, and to The Honorable Arlen Specter, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, expressing AIPLA's concerns over the proposed transfer of jurisdiction for immigration appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, filed March 24, 2006. (Letter to The Honorable Bill Frist, Letter to The Honorable Arlen Specter)
Letter to The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, expressing AIPLA's strong support on H.R. 2791, the “United States Patent and Trademark Office Fee Modernization Act," filed December 9, 2005 (PDF)
Letter to The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch, Chairman, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, United States Senate, expressing AIPLA's opposition to efforts to amend section 271(g) of the patent statute in a manner that would diminish a process patent owner’s existing right to obtain relief against unfair trade practices under Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1337(a)(1)(B)(ii)), filed December 9, 2005 (PDF)
Letter offered in support of H.R. 683 (Trademark Dilution Improvememt Act of 2005), submitted to The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch and The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy, on June 15, 2005.
Written Statement Before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, United States House of Representatives on H.R. 2795, the “Patent Act of 2005," by Gary Griswold, June 9, 2005. Click HERE to view H.R. 2795, the “Patent Act of 2005”
Oral Statement Before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, United States House of Representatives on H.R. 2795, the "Patent Act of 2005", by Gary Griswold, June 9, 2005.
Written Statement Before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, United States Senate, on Perspectives on Patents, by Michael K. Kirk, April 25, 2005
Oral Statement before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, on the need to improve the U.S. patent system, by Michael K. Kirk, April 25, 2005
Letter in regards to Oversight Hearing on Holmes Group, submitted to Congress on March 14, 2005
Letter offered in support of H.R. 32, the “Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act," submitted to Congress on March 11, 2005 (Click HERE for PDF version)
Letter offered in support of proposed changes to H.R. 683, the “Trademark Dilution Improvement Act of 2005," submitted to Congress on February 28, 2005
Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2005 (H.R. 683), by William G. Barber, February 17, 2005