The Patent Reform Act may refer to:
- The Patent Reform Act of 2005, an unenacted bill introduced in the 109th United States Congress
- The Patent Reform Act of 2007, an unenacted bill introduced in the 110th United States Congress
- The Patent Reform Act of 2009, an unenacted bill introduced in the 111th United States Congress
- The Patent Reform Act of 2011, a bill introduced in the 112th United States Congress
Famous quotes containing the words patent, reform and/or act:
“The cigar-box which the European calls a “lift” needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the man’s patent purge—it works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Both of us felt more anxiety about the South—about the colored people especially—than about anything else sinister in the result. My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.”
—Sarah Ellis (1812–1872)