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February 2, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Today’s hearing will look at design protection to determine whether amendments should be made to the law to limit protection for component parts of automobiles.
Chapter 16 of the Patent Act allows an inventor a design patent for any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.
However, the chief limitation on the patentability of designs is that they must be primarily ornamental in character.
If the design is dictated by the performance of the article, then it is judged primarily functional and ineligible for design pat
January 29, 2016
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants Along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administration’s New Normal?” At the hearing, members will examine the swell of unaccompanied alien minors and family units crossing the southwest border and the Administration’s lack of vetting of unaccompanied children’s sponsors in the U.S.
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January 29, 2016
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants Along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administration’s New Normal?” At the hearing, members will examine the swell of unaccompanied alien minors and family units crossing the southwest border and the Administration’s lack of vetting of unaccompanied children’s sponsors in the U.S.
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January 29, 2016
January 29, 2016
January 29, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of February 1-5, 2016.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 210:00 a.m. | Full CommitteeClassified Hearing on: FISA Amendments Act
*This hearing is for Members only.
Witnesses:
- Mr. Robert S. Litt, General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Mr.
January 29, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of February 1-5, 2016.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 210:00 a.m. | Full CommitteeClassified Hearing on: FISA Amendments Act
*This hearing is for Members only.
Witnesses:
- Mr. Robert S. Litt, General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Mr.
January 29, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of February 1-5, 2016.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 210:00 a.m. | Full CommitteeClassified Hearing on: FISA Amendments Act
*This hearing is for Members only.
Witnesses:
- Mr. Robert S. Litt, General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Mr.
January 29, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of February 1-5, 2016.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 210:00 a.m. | Full CommitteeClassified Hearing on: FISA Amendments Act
*This hearing is for Members only.
Witnesses:
- Mr. Robert S. Litt, General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Mr.
January 28, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas.), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.), and Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.), the author of The Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, today sent a letter to President Obama regarding his unilateral changes to the law allowing certain people who have traveled to nations of terrorism-related concern (i.e.