See the roll call for your congressman. [1] Roll 629 "On Passage" is the vote on final House passage.
Summary of the amendments extracted from the report (only the Rohrabacher amendment passed; Goodlatte's was automatically added since he's the committee chair):
(see also Thomas's Rules Committee report [1])
Goodlatte's has technical changes.
Watt's amendment weakens the loser-pays provision
Polis's Requires claimants to provide additional
disclosure information in any pre-suit notification to
establish a willful infringement claim. (no vote)
Massie's Strikes section 5, the ``Customer-suit
exception'' provision.
Jackson Lee's first Expands covered customer definition to
all small businesses so long as their annual revenue does not
exceed $25 million.
Jackson Lee's second Requires the Director to conduct a
study regarding the economic impact of the changes in current
law resulting from Sections 3, 4, and 5 of the bill on the
ability of individuals and small businesses owned by women,
veterans, and minorities to assert, secure, and vindicate their constitutionally guaranteed exclusive right to their inventions and discoveries.
Rohrabacher's moves patent applicant appeals back to district courts such as the Eastern District of Texas instead of the CAFC as the original bill specified. (This is the amendment that passed.)
Conyers's essentially waters down the entire bill and replaces it with the much weaker and pro-troll Senate bill. Anybody who voted for this is not really our friend (roll call 628)[1]. This would drop the pleading reform, discovery reform, and loser-pays provisions that constitute essentially all the effective reforms in the bill.
Summary of the amendments extracted from the report (only the Rohrabacher amendment passed; Goodlatte's was automatically added since he's the committee chair):
(see also Thomas's Rules Committee report [1])
Goodlatte's has technical changes.
Watt's amendment weakens the loser-pays provision
Polis's Requires claimants to provide additional disclosure information in any pre-suit notification to establish a willful infringement claim. (no vote)
Massie's Strikes section 5, the ``Customer-suit exception'' provision.
Jackson Lee's first Expands covered customer definition to all small businesses so long as their annual revenue does not exceed $25 million.
Jackson Lee's second Requires the Director to conduct a study regarding the economic impact of the changes in current law resulting from Sections 3, 4, and 5 of the bill on the ability of individuals and small businesses owned by women, veterans, and minorities to assert, secure, and vindicate their constitutionally guaranteed exclusive right to their inventions and discoveries.
Rohrabacher's moves patent applicant appeals back to district courts such as the Eastern District of Texas instead of the CAFC as the original bill specified. (This is the amendment that passed.)
Conyers's essentially waters down the entire bill and replaces it with the much weaker and pro-troll Senate bill. Anybody who voted for this is not really our friend (roll call 628)[1]. This would drop the pleading reform, discovery reform, and loser-pays provisions that constitute essentially all the effective reforms in the bill.
[0] http://beta.congress.gov/congressional-report/113th-congress...
[1] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/index.asp