PUBLIC LAW 105-289—OCT. 27, 1998 112 STAT. 2781 et seq.), as amended by the Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1994 (Public Law 103-349); and (3) to strengthen the ability of United States plant patent holders to enforce their patent rights with regard to importation of plant parts produced from plants protected by United States plant patents, which are propagated without the authorization of the patent holder. SEC. 3. AMENDMENT TO TITLE 35, UNITED STATES CODE. (a) RIGHTS IN PLANT PATENTS. —Section 163 of title 35, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
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"In the case of a plant patent, the grant shall include the right to exclude others from asexually reproducing the plant, and from using, offering for sale, or selling the plant so reproduced, or any of its parts, throughout the United States, or from importing the plant so reproduced, or any parts thereof, into the United States.". (b) EFFECTIVE DATE. —The amendment made by subsection (a) 35 USC 163 note, shall apply to any plant patent issued on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 4. ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC PATENT INFORMATION. 35 USC 41 note. (a) IN GENERAL.—The United States Patent and Trademark Office shall develop and implement statewide computer networks with remote library sites in requesting rural States such that citizens in those States will have enhanced access to information in their State's patent and trademark depository library. (b) DEFINITION.— In this section, the term "rural States" means the States that qualified on January 1, 1997, as rural States under section 1501(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 379bb(b)). Approved October 27, 1998. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 1197: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 144 (1998): Oct. 9, considered and passed House. Oct. 15, considered and passed Senate, amended. Oct. 16, House concurred in Senate amendment.
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