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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session JSENATE 115-435
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION PROTECTION ACT OF 2017
DECEMBER 19, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. RISCH, from the Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 791]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, to
which was referred the bill (S. 791) to amend the Small Business
Act to expand intellectual property education and training for
small businesses, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
I. INTRODUCTION
Small Business Innovation Protection Act of 2017, (S. 791), was
introduced by Senator Gary C. Peters, for himself, and Senator
James E. Risch, the Committee's Chairman, on March 30, 2017.
This bill provides for in-person and online training and resources
for small businesses related to domestic and international protec-
tion of intellectual property through Small Business Development
Centers (SBDCs) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO).
During the markup of the bill, the bill was approved unani-
mously by a roll call vote as part of a manager's package.
II. HISTORY (PURPOSE & NEED FOR LEGISLATION)
America's intellectual property-intensive industries employ near-
ly 19 million workers at all education and skill levels and represent
forty percent of the country's economic growth. The value of U.S.
intellectual property is estimated at over $5 trillion, and sixty per-
cent of U.S. exports come from intellectual property-intensive in-
dustries. Patent protection helps innovators recoup the cost of re-
search and development, capitalize on their inventions, create jobs,
and grow the economy. In 2012, Detroit became home to the first-
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