TOPN: Patent Law Amendments Act of 1984

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What's in a popular name?

Laws acquire popular names as they make their way through Congress. Sometimes these names say something about the substance of the law (as with the '2002 Winter Olympic Commemorative Coin Act'). Sometimes they are a way of recognizing or honoring the sponsor or creator of a particular law (as with the 'Taft-Hartley Act'). And sometimes they are meant to garner political support for a law by giving it a catchy name (as with the 'USA Patriot Act' or the 'Take Pride in America Act') or by invoking public outrage or sympathy (as with any number of laws named for victims of crimes). History books, newspapers, and other sources use the popular name to refer to these laws. Why can't these popular names easily be found in the US Code?

How the US Code is built.

The United States Code is meant to be an organized, logical compilation of the laws passed by Congress. At its top level, it divides the world of legislation into fifty topically-organized Titles, and each Title is further subdivided into any number of logical subtopics. In theory, any law -- or individual provisions within any law -- passed by Congress should be classifiable into one or more slots in the framework of the Code. On the other hand, legislation often contains bundles of topically unrelated provisions that collectively respond to a particular public need or problem. A farm bill, for instance, might contain provisions that affect the tax status of farmers, their management of land or treatment of the environment, a system of price limits or supports, and so on. Each of these individual provisions would, logically, belong in a different place in the Code. (Of course, this isn't always the case; some legislation deals with a fairly narrow range of related concerns.)

The process of incorporating a newly-passed piece of legislation into the Code is known as "classification" -- essentially a process of deciding where in the logical organization of the Code the various parts of the particular law belong. Sometimes classification is easy; the law could be written with the Code in mind, and might specifically amend, extend, or repeal particular chunks of the existing Code, making it no great challenge to figure out how to classify its various parts. And as we said before, a particular law might be narrow in focus, making it both simple and sensible to move it wholesale into a particular slot in the Code. But this is not normally the case, and often different provisions of the law will logically belong in different, scattered locations in the Code. As a result, often the law will not be found in one place neatly identified by its popular name. Nor will a full-text search of the Code necessarily reveal where all the pieces have been scattered. Instead, those who classify laws into the Code typically leave a note explaining how a particular law has been classified into the Code. It is usually found in the Note section attached to a relevant section of the Code, usually under a paragraph identified as the "Short Title".

How the LII Table of Popular Names works.

Our Table of Popular Names is organized alphabetically by popular name. You'll find three types of link associated with each popular name (though each law may not have all three types). One, a reference to a Public Law number, is a link to the bill as it was originally passed by Congress, and will take you to the LRC THOMAS legislative system, or GPO FDSYS site. So-called "Short Title" links, and links to particular sections of the Code, will lead you to a textual roadmap (the section notes) describing how the particular law was incorporated into the Code. Finally, acts may be referred to by a different name, or may have been renamed, the links will take you to the appropriate listing in the table.

Patent Law Amendments Act of 1984

Pub. L. 98-622, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3383

Short title, see 35 U.S.C. 1 note

Pub. L. 96-515

Classification

Pub. L. Section	Status	United States Code
		Title	Section	Authorizes
506, 507	Elim.	16	470a nts	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 67 296 43 CFR 7
505	Rev. T.	40	874 nt	36 CFR 908
504	Elim.	16	470h nt	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
503	Elim.	16	470j nt	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
502	Elim.	16	470a nt	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 67 296 43 CFR 7
501	Rev. T. 54	16	470w to 470w-6 470w 470w-1 470w-2 470w-3 470w-4 470w-5 470w-6
401, 402	Rev. T. 54	16	470a-1, 470a-2 470a-1 470a-2	§ 470a-1 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 73 296 43 CFR 7 § 470a-2 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 73 296 43 CFR 7
302(b)	Rev. T. 54	16	470t	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
302(a)	Rev. T. 54	16	470u, 470v 470u 470v
301(k), (l)	Rev. T. 54	16	470r, 470s 470r 470s	§ 470r 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470s 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 800 43 CFR 7
301(h)	Rev. T. 54	16	470l	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
301(i), (j)	Rev. T. 54	16	470m	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
301(g)	Rev. T. 54	16	470j	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
301(a)-(f)	Rev. T. 54	16	470i	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
208	Rev. T. 54	16	469c-2	7 CFR 656 30 CFR 773 36 CFR 62 65
206, 207	Rev. T. 54	16	470h-2, 470h-3 470h-2 470h-3	§ 470h-2 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 41 CFR 102-78 43 CFR 7 50 CFR 37 § 470h-3 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 18 296 43 CFR 7
205	Rev. T. 54	16	470h	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
201(a)	Rev. T. 54	16	470a	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 67 296 43 CFR 7
202-204	Rev. T. 54	16	470b to 470d 470b 470b-1 470c 470d	§ 470b 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470b-1 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470c 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470d 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 73 296 43 CFR 7
101(a)	Rev. T. 54	16	470-1	7 CFR 656 30 CFR 731 732 772 773 779 780 783 784 36 CFR 60 61 65 68 78 79
101(a)		54	100101 nt	36 CFR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 13
1		54	100101 nt	36 CFR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 13

Authorizes

CFR Title	Part
3154	36	Part 810