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)
“... most reform movements in our country have been cursed by a lunatic fringe and have mingled sound ideas for social progress with utopian nonsense.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion, not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)