1) amendment of the definition of infringement to include
offers for sale or lease of a patented article;
2) removing products of nuclear transformations from the list of unpatentable inventions;
3) providing for accelerated publication if the applicant so requests;
4) making the term of all patents in force on July 1, 1996, twenty years from filing, unless they previously had a longer term in which case the longer term is retained;
5) amendment of the procedure for applying for a compulsory license in some circumstances, particularly when the compulsory license is sought to remedy prior acts of an anti-competitive nature.
2) removing products of nuclear transformations from the list of unpatentable inventions;
3) providing for accelerated publication if the applicant so requests;
4) making the term of all patents in force on July 1, 1996, twenty years from filing, unless they previously had a longer term in which case the longer term is retained;
5) amendment of the procedure for applying for a compulsory license in some circumstances, particularly when the compulsory license is sought to remedy prior acts of an anti-competitive nature.
