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![handle is hein.congrec/stfhaafd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Calendar No. 219
102D CONGRESs REPORT
1st Session SAn 102-146
THE NATIONAL COOPERATIVE RESEARCH ACT
EXTENSION OF 1991
SEPTEMBER 11 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 10), 1991.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BIDEN, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany S. 479]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill
(S. 479) to encourage innovation and productivity, stimulate trade,
and promote the competitiveness and technological leadership of
the United States, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. P urpose ................................................................................................................... 2
II. B ackground ............................................................................................................. 2
A. The National Cooperative Research Act of 1984............................... 2
B. The need for additional legislation...................................................... 3
III. Legislative history ................................................................................................ 4
IV . Section-by-section analysis................................................................................... 5
V . D iscussion .............................................................................................................. . 10
A . A ntitrust uncertainty ............................................................................. 10
1. Application of the rule of reason to production of joint
ven tu res............................................................................................... 11
B. Im pact on sm all businesses................................................................... 12
C. A nticom petitive activity ........................................................................ 13
D. Competitiveness of U.S. industry in key technologies and areas
of production ............................................................................................. . 14
VI. Vote of the committee....................................... 15
V II. Text of S. 479, as reported .................................................................................. . 15
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