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• Guest Opinion: Pending Patent and Antitrust Legislation Will Help Strengthen U.S. Competitiveness in Technology
  Guest opinion written by Senator Bob Dole on two different technology, research & development, and patent bills.
• Dear Colleague Letter on the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act
  Letter co-signed by Senators Birch Bayh, Bob Dole, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., and Dennis DeConcini stating their plan and reasoning to introduce the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act.
• Status Profile for S. 414, University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act
  Status from the House Office of the Clerk with the updated actions and current co-sponsors on the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act (which would become the Bayh-Dole Act) as of December 13, 1979.
• Article: Bayh-Dole +25
  Twenty-five year retrospective of the Bayh-Dole Act from the perspectives of Birch Bayh and Bob Dole in the April-May 2005 issue of TechComm.
• Congressional Record: Senator Birch Bayh Introduces S.4396, Small Business Nonprofit Organization Patent Procedures Act
  Senator Birch Bayh's introduction of Senate Bill 3496, the Small Business Nonprofit Organization Patent Procedures Act on the Senate floor. It is a bill to amend title 35 of the United States Senate code to establish a uniform federal patent procedure for small businesses and nonprofit organizations, to create a consistent policy and procedure concerning patentability of inventions made with Federal assistance, and for other related purposes. This bill would later become the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act, which would become known as the Bayh-Dole Act.
• Congressional Quarterly: Patent Law Amendments
• Handwritten Note on Commercialization of Technology
  A handwritten note in Senator Dole's legislative assistant Mark Scanlan's files listing recent updates and actions related to patent, technology transfer, and research and development policy.