Of current interest: Bills reflect patent commission´s recommendations

The National Patent Planning Commission´s recommendations (EE, Sept ´43, pp 423–4) are carried out in three new bills on patents recently introduced in Congress by Representative F. W. Boykin, chairman of the House committee on patents. The major proposal, HR 2632, would require the recording of agreements relating to patents. Another bill, HR 2630, would provide for the public registration of patents available for licensing, and HR 2631 proposes that a patent shall terminate not more than 20 years after an application has been filed but keeping the term of a patent at 17 years.