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HR 4570 · in committee · significant

Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • Creates a task force to improve coordination between the Patent Office and FDA on drug patents.
  • Affects patent examiners, FDA staff, and pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs.
  • Establishes information-sharing processes between agencies with no specified appropriation amount.

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    How might improved coordination between the Patent Office and FDA affect the timeline for pharmaceutical companies to bring new drugs to market?

  2. 02

    What specific information would be shared between these agencies, and what safeguards should protect proprietary pharmaceutical data?

  3. 03

    Which stakeholders—patent examiners, FDA staff, or drug developers—would bear the costs of implementing these new interagency processes?

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Joe Neguse

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Introduced 2025-07-21

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-07-21 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

  2. 2025-07-21 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  3. 2025-07-21 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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