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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance May 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- , come up with the technology and patent that technology that is non-destructive.
- It has been patented today, and again, I'm an economist, so I apologize.
- It's patented. Now we need to get to market.
- Are we developing that patent that way? Mr. Chair and, and Senator, I, it can vary, I think.
- And so he patented it.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Land Grant Oct 7th, 2025
House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- investment by the state land office for those trustees being education, when land grants received their patent
- And it wasn't the first time that we tried to establish the Las Vegas Settlement.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Mar 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- There isn't patent prosecution and all of that happens with patents because it's slightly different.
- The Patent Office decides in advance who's patent... are companies supposed to distinguish what is copyrighted
- There isn't patent prosecution and all of that happens with patents because it's slightly different.
- The patent office decides in advance who's patent. That's sort of the difference versus a patent.
- The patent office decides in advance whose patent it is.
Summary:
The Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee met with a new membership roster and adopted its committee rules after quorum was established. The hearing then began with AB 412, the AI Copyright Transparency Act, which would require generative AI developers to provide copyright holders notice when registered copyrighted works are used in training data. The author and supporters, including SAG-AFTRA, the Transparency Coalition, voice actors, writers, labor groups, and other creators, argued the bill would give artists a practical way to learn whether their works were used and to vindicate their rights. Opponents, including EFF, CalChamber, RIAA, CCIA, Chamber of Progress, Bay Area Council, BSA, and TechNet, said the proposal was technically unworkable, could burden startups, conflict with existing law and pending litigation, and raise federal preemption concerns. Members discussed the bill’s amendments, including a fingerprinting approach and narrowing the bill to model developers, and the committee voted 8-2 to pass AB 412 as amended to the Judiciary Committee.
The committee then heard AB 446, which would prohibit “surveillance pricing,” or the use of personal data to charge different prices for the same product or service. The author and supporters, including Consumer Watchdog, UFCW, labor organizations, and consumer/privacy groups, described examples of differential pricing tied to device type, location, shopping behavior, and digital price tags, and argued the bill would protect consumers from discriminatory and predatory pricing. Business and industry opponents, including CalChamber, grocers, retailers, travel, broadband, and other associations, said the bill could conflict with the CCPA, interfere with loyalty and rewards programs, and create confusion about personalized discounts and dynamic pricing. The discussion focused on how the bill would treat loyalty programs, whether existing privacy law already covers the issue, and whether the proposal would unintentionally affect legitimate discounts and promotions.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Education Policy Committee Apr 16th, 2025
Education Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- A pronoun or title that is patently inconsistent with the student's name, with the student's sex without
- So that's adding the word "patently". And then on line 65, basically... patently.
- strike other than the student's legal name or a derivative thereof or by and then add the word "patently
- And then add the word "patently" to patently inconsistent.
Committee:
House Education Policy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Apr 28th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- With me today to testify is Jonathan Stroud with Unified Patents.
- My name is Jonathan Stroud, and I’m here today on behalf of Unified Patents to express our support for
- With me today to testify is Jonathan Stroud with United Patents.
- My name is Jonathan Stroud and I'm here today on behalf of Unified Patents to express our support for
- Ponzi schemes, frivolous patent litigation abuses, and attempts to avoid state-sponsored sanctions by
Summary:
The Assembly Banking and Finance Committee met to hear several bills, beginning with a consent calendar that included AB 665 and AB 866, both adopted on a do pass basis and referred to Appropriations. The committee then took up AB 801, which would create a California Community Reinvestment Act to require covered financial institutions, including state-chartered banks, credit unions, residential mortgage lenders, and money transmitters, to meet the financial needs of low- and moderate-income communities and communities of color. The author and supporters argued the bill would close gaps left by the federal CRA, address redlining and discriminatory lending, and expand investment in housing, small business, and community development. Support came from community groups, CDFIs, labor, and housing advocates, while opposition from mortgage bankers and credit unions argued the bill would impose costly new reporting and regulatory burdens, especially on institutions they said already serve underserved borrowers well. Committee members discussed the scope of the bill, the experience of other states with state CRA laws, and possible carve-outs or tiered treatment for smaller credit unions. AB 801 was passed as amended and referred to Appropriations, with the roll left open and later completed; one member voted no and others were not voting or voted aye as the roll was finalized.
The committee also heard AB 743, which would require licensing and surety bonds for commercial lawsuit financing and bring those transactions under DFPI oversight. The author said the bill was aimed at a largely unregulated, multi-billion-dollar industry and was intended to increase transparency and address concerns about foreign interests, fraud, and abusive litigation funding practices, while not affecting consumer legal funding. Supporters, including Unified Patents, the Civil Justice Association of California, the California Chamber of Commerce, the California Trucking Association, and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, said the bill was an important first step toward disclosure and regulation. There was no opposition testimony. AB 743 passed unanimously as amended and was referred to Appropriations, with the roll held open briefly for absent members before the committee adjourned.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Okay, so the letter neither finds a violation of law nor engages in bona fide settlement efforts.
- believe that the governor called upon the legislature to enact something that you... ...thought was patently
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nomination of Howard Lutnick, of New York, to be Secretary of Commerce. Jan 29th, 2025 at 09:15 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- It takes 21 months to get a patent pending.
- I am a patent holder. I've used the Patent Office over many years. It can be much more productive.
- They don't give us protection, and they come in and use our patent office against us.
- We need to enhance their ability to get patents.
- I think the Chinese use our patent office against us.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Intellectual property is where they patent things and they patent process and drugs and things like that
- I thought insofar as the patents go, it's not the state of Texas that owns the patents.
- Right so so but we We don't own the patent, we get the royalties.
- Monsanto patented glyphosate.
- Glyphosate's first patent. patent was to inhibit the uptake of minerals on boilers like the calcium.
Committee:
House Public Health
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 2/27/25
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Patent, which is another one for you, Representative Allen.
- So thank you for that, Director Weber. about uh uh getting patents and uh doing about uh uh getting patents
- And another question that's come up is patents.
- One of the things we do is patent crop varietal protection, or the Patent Act at the federal level, that
- we can patent crop varieties that we develop.
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Having a kale built is a problem because they shouldn't be homeless to begin with when our Royal patents
- Shouldn't be homeless to begin with when our Royal patents sit on these TMKs.
- She has a royal patent. They have more right than anybody.
- </c><01:03:57.599><c> they</c> they she has a royal patent they they she has a royal patent they have
- There's still settlement sitting in those tanks; there's still procrastination every single time they
Committee:
House Water & Land
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on several bills. HB 114, concerning employment in the State Historic Preservation Program, drew support from DLNR, which said the measure would help retain qualified archaeologists, architects, and other professionals by preserving current pay levels for a limited number of positions. Members raised concerns about expanding exempt positions and the effect on union coverage, and DLNR said it was also working with DEHRD on longer-term reclassification issues. No vote was taken on the bill in the portion provided.
HB 12, relating to tort liability, drew strong opposition from the Hawaii Association for Justice, which argued the bill would create overly broad immunity for landowners, conflict with Hawaii’s comparative fault framework, and undermine existing recreational liability law. Supporters said it would reduce liability concerns and encourage landowners to allow hiking, hunting, search-and-rescue training, and firearms-related uses on private land. The committee then moved on without any recorded vote in the excerpt.
The committee also discussed HB 29 on counties, but no county representative was present, and members questioned whether the proposal should instead proceed through condemnation if it involved a forced sale. HB 175 on property maintenance received DLNR comments that the bill should be narrowed to noxious weeds and that fire-related provisions were more properly handled by county fire departments and the State Fire Marshal. HB 331 on permits drew support from several state agencies, but the Honolulu Board of Water Supply opposed it unless “repetitive construction” was defined more clearly; members and agencies discussed narrowing the bill to avoid unintended impacts on water and utility infrastructure. The committee also heard strong support for HB 3 on North Shore beach management, HB 309 on fish ponds, and HB 306 on water code penalties, though the Board of Water Supply raised concerns about increased fines and suggested an alternative governor’s bill and clearer administrative rules.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
WAM-HHS, WAM-TRS Informational Briefings 01-15-2026
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- For behavioral health, just going to highlight that's a graphic of the opioid settlement funds.
- </c> graphic of the opioid settlement funds. graphic of the opioid settlement funds.
- ;> Uh, so from what we would consider where the<00:20:59.039><c> Calopa</c><00:20:59.840><c> settlement
- at the federal standard level there's only one legal that has been rightfully cleared by FDA and patented
- </c> 10-year levels of patented. 10-year levels of patented.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Over the last two years, the center has patented three new types of grapes.
- To date, we received a little over $230,000 for these patent activity fees.
- OP Solutions also supports research activities, ...for these patent activity fees.
- , including with a startup company that... ...developing patents, including with a startup company that
- There have been 60 U.S. patents, 25 of those are licensed to private sector companies who are attempting
Committee:
Senate Education Postsecondary
Summary:
The Education Postsecondary Committee held its first meeting and focused on state university centers and institutes, with an overview from the Board of Governors on how the more than 500 centers and institutes across Florida’s public universities are categorized, overseen, and reported. The Board described three categories: state-level centers, legislatively established centers, and university-established centers. Members were told universities must maintain policies, notify the Board of changes, publish public inventories, and submit annual reports and compliance certifications. Senator Harrell asked about funding sources and whether underperforming centers are reviewed for elimination; the response was that funding varies by center and that universities decide whether to maintain or disband centers under their own policies, with annual reporting and audit findings shared with the Board.
Four university presentations followed. Florida Atlantic University highlighted its Center of Excellence in Biomedical and Marine Biotechnology, describing research in marine-derived drug discovery, genomics, imaging, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and ocean sustainability, along with spin-off institutes and partnerships that have generated significant grant and contract support. FIU presented its Center of Excellence for Hurricane Damage Mitigation and Product Development, emphasizing the Wall of Wind facility, hurricane and water intrusion testing, code and product innovation, insurance modeling, and future expansion toward higher wind speeds and flood simulation. Florida State University’s High-Performance Materials Institute described work in advanced materials, aerospace composites, sensors, nanocomposites, and AI-enabled materials development, along with patents, industry partnerships, and new facilities tied to economic development. The University of Florida’s Lastinger Center for Learning outlined its work on teacher professional learning, literacy, New Worlds Reading, tutoring, and mathematics supports, including microcredentials, statewide book distribution, and early results showing improved reading confidence and growth.
Members generally praised the centers for their research, commercialization, workforce development, and education impacts. Senator Jones and Senator Harrell commended the Lastinger Center’s literacy work and the broader return on investment from these programs, while Senator Berman noted the value of the synergies across institutions. The chair emphasized that future funding requests should clearly show measurable success, commercialization, and statewide impact. The committee then adjourned without any formal votes on legislation.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Apr 28th, 2025
Banking and Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- Today to testify is Jonathan Stroud with Unified Patents.
- I'm here today on behalf of Unified Patents to express our support for AB 743.
- Unified Patents is a broad-based membership organization with hundreds of members from all parts of the
- lawsuits and abuse by offering reliable public information, filing public challenges, and improving patent
- Ponzi schemes, frivolous patent litigation abuses, and attempts to avoid state-sponsored sanctions by
Committee:
House Banking and Finance
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Health Committee Jun 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Department of Health and Human Services... ...would be able to, because the manufacturers currently have a patent
- Once the patent, you know this better than I do, once the patent would expire...
- Department of Health and Human Services would be able to, because the manufacturers currently have a patent
- Once the patent, you know this better than I do.
- Once the patent would expire, Once the patent, you know this better than I do, once the patent would
Summary:
The Assembly Health Committee heard several bills focused on mental health access, preventive care, health care costs, detention oversight, and daylight saving time. SB 989 would streamline Care Court referrals by allowing first responders to ask county behavioral health agencies to review and file petitions; supporters, especially firefighters and families, said the current process is too burdensome, while Disability Rights California and other opponents argued Care Court is coercive and unproven. SB 1089, as amended, would direct CalRx/HHS to help distribute GLP-1 medications more broadly and more affordably; the author described her own experience with the drugs, and the bill drew support from medical and life sciences groups with no opposition. SB 1309 would eliminate out-of-pocket costs for medically appropriate lung cancer screening follow-up care; cancer advocates and survivors strongly supported it, while health plans and insurers opposed it as costly and said the bigger problem is low initial screening rates. The committee also heard SB 1284, which would require DHCS to report large employers whose workers are enrolled in Medi-Cal and estimate taxpayer costs, framed by supporters as a transparency measure about corporate reliance on public coverage. SCR 7, urging permanent standard time for health reasons, passed with support from medical groups and no opposition. SB 995, the Masuma Khan Justice Act, would create statewide inspection and enforcement standards for large involuntary residential facilities, including private immigration detention centers and certain youth facilities; supporters cited unsafe and inhumane conditions, while county probation officials objected to duplicative oversight for secure youth treatment facilities. The committee took votes on each measure, and the bills and resolution advanced, with SB 1309 and SB 1284 moving on amended and the others also reported out; the consent calendar was approved as well.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- To obtain a settlement To achieve equity, cities like San Antonio, whose demographic is predominantly
- Also, it is a very small percentage of people actually voting, so it is patently incorrect to say that
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
electric power, interconnection, utilities, ERCOT, large load customers, water supply, sewer service, demand management, school prayer, Bible reading, religious text, public schools, Texas Education Code, student prayer, silent prayer, meditation, religious liberty, First Amendment, Establishment Clause, church and state
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Elise Stefanik, of New York, to be the Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the Representative of the United States of Americ Jan 30th, 2025 at 09:25 am
Foreign Relations Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I think there have been such an unleashing of attacks on Palestinian settlements in the West Bank, and
- The Chinese Communist Party consistently steals intellectual property, patents, and other data.
Committee:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nomination of Kelly Loeffler, of Georgia, to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration. Jan 29th, 2025 at 02:30 pm
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement relating to this kind of conduct?
- My favorite statistic about our small businesses is that they create 16 times more patents than large
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Government Contract Review Committee (7-8-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm aware, and I also have the settlement that was reached by the ethics commission.
- that was reached by the settlement that was reached by the ethics<00:12:39.760><c> commission</c> ethics
- So, it's just patently clear to me that kindergarten is extremely important, as is pre-K, as in getting
- So,<01:20:25.199><c> it's</c><01:20:25.520><c> just</c><01:20:26.480><c> patently</c><01:20:26.960><c
- clear to me that So, it's just patently clear to me that kindergarten<01:20:29.920><c> is</c><01:20:
Summary:
The committee first approved the June 9 minutes, then reviewed a deferred personnel contract involving workers’ compensation claims administration. Staff explained that the roughly $50 million figure included about $48 million for claims payments and up to $1.45 million per year for administrative services, with billing based on a fee schedule for specific services rendered. Senator Meredith raised concerns about the vendor’s history, the scoring and bid process, and prior allegations involving the company; the administration responded that the procurement had been conducted under 45A through open competition, with outside scorers and no finding of wrongdoing tied to this contract. Meredith moved to disapprove Contract 167, Hart seconded, and the committee voted 5-2 to disapprove it.
The committee then deferred a Western Kentucky University personal services contract because the vendors were still not registered with the Secretary of State’s office. Hart moved to defer the contract until the August 2026 meeting, Meredith seconded, and the motion carried. The committee also approved the agenda covering the various contract lists and deferred items.
Next, the committee heard from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services on several personal services contracts for medical staffing and related services. Secretary Steven Stack and staff explained that staffing shortages often require outside vendors, that the contracts were competitively bid under 45A, and that the cabinet uses a streamlined vendor pool for specialized needs such as actuaries, auditors, and technical consultants. The committee approved Contracts 52 through 55 without objection. Discussion then began on Contract 61, with Meredith expressing concern that the committee lacked enough detail to judge whether the services could be performed in-house or whether the exchange of resources was appropriate; Stack said the contract was intended to provide efficient access to specialized outside expertise. The transcript cuts off before a final vote on Contract 61 is shown.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 3, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- :29.679><c> our</c><02:10:29.920><c> nation's</c> held 20 patents supporting our nation's held 20 patents
- </c><03:09:30.640><c> rep</c> for and what the settlement rep for and what the settlement rep settlement
- I want to emphasize sham settlement.
- The provision granting settlement.
- </c><05:50:51.520><c> agreement</c> law the entire settlement agreement law the entire settlement agreement
Keywords:
War Powers Resolution, Lebanon, troop withdrawal, U.S. Armed Forces, military deployment, foreign policy, congressional war powers, executive authority, Middle East, troop removal, concurrent resolution, defense policy, overseas deployment, Ukraine, support, foreign affairs, military aid, international relations, War Powers, military action
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- The special master found this is an uncontested claim arising from a settlement agreement.
- The special master found this is an uncontested claim arising from a settlement agreement.
- , two or three of those patents became extremely innovative for General Motors and the Big Three at the
- Equipment and ended up going on to open his own machine shop and eventually created 21 patents, two or
- three of those patents became extremely innovative for General Motors and the Big Three at the time
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former member Chester Clem, the Pledge of Allegiance, and quorum confirmation. Members then adopted the special order report and a rules report amending House Rule 15.3 to allow fundraising under certain circumstances during extended or special sessions. The chamber also heard several recognitions and a farewell speech from Representative Nixon, who reflected on constituent service and her legislative priorities.
On the floor, HB 1405, relating to a statewide project for missing persons with special needs, passed unanimously. The House then took up CS/CS/CS/SB 290, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services bill, which drew questions about the handling of surplus conservation lands and agricultural uses; it passed 94-10. CS/CS/CS/HB 905, the “Fire Act” on foreign influence, was explained as a broad package restricting foreign-country influence in government, procurement, gifts, cultural agreements, and related areas. An amendment adding restrictions on surrogacy and adoption involving citizens or residents of foreign countries of concern was adopted after debate over possible impacts on families and adoption practices, and the bill then passed 80-20.
The House also passed CS/CS/HB 1197, a bill to modernize state information technology procurement and contracting, unanimously after debate about improving oversight of large IT projects. HB 1103, allowing local governments to fast-track action on derelict vessels, also passed unanimously. The chamber then considered CS/CS/CS/HB 399 on land use development and development regulations, including limits on development fees, changes to local voting thresholds for comprehensive plan and boundary actions, manufactured homes in RV parks, and resort-related provisions. Several amendments were debated, including one on local control and rural boundaries that failed and another strike-all amendment ruled out of order; the bill ultimately passed 71-38. The final item reached before the transcript ended was a local bill for the Pace Fire Rescue District in Santa Rosa County, described as adjusting its assessment formula to provide tax relief.