Bill Amendment: FL S1084 | 2015 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Patent Infringement

Status: 2015-05-01 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 439 (Ch. 2015-92) [S1084 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S1084-Senate_Committee_Amendment_183872.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1084
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Brandes) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 183 - 190
    4  and insert:
    5  or deceptive trade practice in any action brought by an
    6  enforcing authority pursuant to s. 501.207. For the purposes of
    7  this section, the term “enforcing authority” has the same
    8  meaning as provided in s. 501.203.
    9         Section 8. Section 501.997, Florida Statutes, is created to
   10  read:
   11         501.997 Exemptions.—This part does not apply to
   12  institutions of higher education, to a technology transfer
   13  organization owned by or affiliated with an institution of
   14  higher education, or to a demand letter or an assertion of
   15  patent infringement that includes a claim for relief arising
   16  under 35 U.S.C. s. 271(e)(2) or 42 U.S.C. s. 262.
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   19  And the title is amended as follows:
   20         Delete line 21
   21  and insert:
   22         501.997, F.S.; providing exemptions; providing an