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Small Business Size Regulations; Size Standards for Compliance With Programs of Other Agencies
The Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to amend its size regulations. The proposed amendment requires an agency to consult in writing with SBA before proposing small business size standards for use in its programs, if those size standards are other than those established by SBA. It removes the requirement that the agency have the SBA...
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Rulemaking for EDGAR System
We are in the process of modernizing our Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. On June 28, 1999, we began accepting filings submitted to EDGAR in HyperText Markup Language as well as documents submitted in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange format. As of that date, filers have had the option to...
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Changes to Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-Year Patent Term
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is proposing changes to the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of section 4402 of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' These provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' provide patent term adjustment to compensate patentees for...
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Changes To Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is proposing changes to the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' These provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' provide, with certain exceptions, for the publication of pending patent...
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Rules To Implement Optional Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings
The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) is proposing to amend its rules of practice in patent cases to provide revised procedures for the reexamination of patents and thereby implement certain provisions of ``the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' ``The American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' included an amendment to the...
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Pre-Disaster Mitigation Loans
With this rule SBA proposes to amend its Pre-Disaster Mitigation Loan Program (program) regulations. This rule proposes amendments that will clarify program requirements and procedures. The Pre-Disaster Mitigation Loan Program is a pilot program that was authorized by Congress in 1999. It allows SBA to make low interest, fixed rate loans to...
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Small Business Investment Companies
This proposed rule would implement a provision of Public Law 106-9, enacted April 5, 1999, under which certain types of consideration paid to a small business investment company (SBIC) by a small business are excluded from ``cost of money'' limitations.
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Treatment of Unlocatable Application and Patent Files
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is proposing to amend the rules of practice to provide for the replacement of application and patent files that cannot be located after a reasonable search. This change is designed to expedite the process of application and patent file reconstruction to minimize the processing or examination delays...
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Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loans
With this document, SBA proposes to amend its Disaster Loan Program regulations to implement a new program authorized by the Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999. Under this new program, SBA would make a low interest, fixed rate loan available to a small business employing a military reservist if that reservist is...
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Small Business Investment Companies
This proposed rule would modify the management-ownership diversity requirement in SBA's Small Business Investment Company (``SBIC'') Program to prohibit the ownership of more than 70% of a leveraged SBIC by any single investor or group of affiliated investors. This action will help to ensure that each new leveraged SBIC has managers that...
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Rights to Inventions Made by Nonprofit Organizations and Small Business Firms Under Government Grants, Contracts, and Cooperative Agreements; Special Contracts To Provide Support Services for a Government-Owned and -Operated Laboratory Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) With a Collaborating Party
This proposed rule would authorize Federal agencies to use an alternate patent rights clause in certain contracts with nonprofit organizations and small business firms to provide support services at a Government-owned and -operated laboratory in connection with a CRADA between the laboratory and a collaborating party.
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HUBZone Program
The Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to amend its regulations governing the HUBZone Empowerment Contracting Program (HUBZone program). Now that SBA has officially launched the program, has received over two thousand applications for HUBZone certification, and has certified concerns into the program, SBA believes that it should make...
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PRIME Act Grants
The U.S. Small Business Administration is proposing regulations to add new regulations to set up the Program for Investment in Microentrepreneurs Act (``PRIME'' or ``the Act''), created by Title VII of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, enacted November 12, 1999. The proposed regulation sets forth the Act's grant requirements for qualified...
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Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Color, or National Origin in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance; Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Handicap in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance; Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Age in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance
The Agencies propose to amend their regulations implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (``Title VI''), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1972 (``Section 504''), and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (``Age Discrimination Act''). Together, these statutes prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin,...
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Revision of Patent and Trademark Fees for Fiscal Year 2002
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (referred to as ``we'', ``us'', or ``our'' in this document) is proposing to adjust certain patent fee amounts and a trademark fee amount to reflect fluctuations in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Also, we are proposing to adjust, by a corresponding amount, a few patent fees that track the affected...
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Elimination of Continued Prosecution Application Practice as to Utility and Plant Patent Applications
The American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA) enacted provisions for the continued examination of a utility or plant application at the request of the applicant (request for continued examination or RCE practice). Therefore, there no longer appears to be a need for continued prosecution application (CPA) practice as to utility and plant...
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Requirements for Claiming the Benefit of Prior-Filed Applications Under Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
In implementing the provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 related to the eighteen-month publication of patent applications, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) revised the rules of practice related to requirements for claiming the benefit of a prior-filed application. The Office is now proposing to revise...
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Small Business Size Regulations; Government Contracting Programs; HUBZone Program
The Small Business Administration proposes to amend its regulations for the Historically Underutilized Business Zone Program (HUBZone Program). On December 21, 2000, the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000 made several changes to the HUBZone Program, including changes to the eligibility requirements for small business concerns owned by...
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Small Business Size Regulations; Petroleum Refineries
The Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to modify the small business size standard for petroleum refiners for purposes of Federal Government procurement. SBA proposes to increase the capacity component of the size standard from 75,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 155,000 barrels per calendar day (bpcd); to define the capacity measure in...
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Small Business Size Regulations; 8(a) Business Development/Small Disadvantaged Business Status Determinations; Rules of Procedure Governing Cases Before the Office of Hearings and Appeals
The Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to amend its regulations governing proceedings before the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA). The regulation's last comprehensive revisions were in 1996, followed by additional revisions in 1998 and 2000. The SBA also proposes to make conforming changes to several sections of the regulations...