Affans INDEPENDENT PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ACT JOINT HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON AND THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 2079 TO IMPROVE THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE PATENT AND TRADE- JANUARY 24 AND MARCH 12, 1980 Printed for the use of the Committee on Governmental Affairs and COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, Connecticut, Chairman HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington JOHN GLENN, Ohio JIM SASSER, Tennessee DAVID PRYOR, Arkansas CHARLES H. PERCY, Illinois TED STEVENS, Alaska CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland DAVID DURENBERGER, Minnesota RICHARD A. WEGMAN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director Francis Wolek, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology, De- Donald W. Banner, McLean, Va.; Č. Marshall Dann, Philadelphia, Pa.; Robert Donald R. Dunner, president, American Patent Law Association; Arthur R. Whale, chairman, National Council of Patent Law Associations; Morton David Goldberg, chairman, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section, Louis M. Gibson, president, U.S. Trademark Association, accompanied by Robert O'Brian, executive vice president. Archer L. Bolton, Jr., chairman, Science and Technology Task Force, Nation- al Manufacturers' Association, accompanied by John E. Maurer, chairman, Intellectual Property Task Force, National Manufacturers' Association Eric P. Schellin, chairman, Board of Trustees, National Small Business Asso- Alan P. Douglas, president, Patent Office Professional Association........ .......... (III) 22 se 81 |