S 2281
IDEA Act
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This bill, the Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement Act (IDEA Act), aims to increase diversity in patent ownership by requiring the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to collect voluntary demographic information from inventors applying for patents. This data, including gender, race, ethnicity, and other factors, would be kept confidential and used to generate aggregated reports to track diversity trends in patents. The reports would be made publicly available without identifying individual inventors, and the USPTO would submit biannual evaluations to Congress.
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