District of Columbia intellectual property laws

What District of Columbia has enacted on intellectual property, what each law requires, and what the bills still moving would do. District of Columbia is one of 37 states that enacted an intellectual property law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

Bills in scope: 4bills in scope
Past committee: 4past committee
Most recent action: 27 February 2026most recent action

Intellectual Property laws enacted in District of Columbia

4 intellectual property laws enacted in the District of Columbia Legislature in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, newest first. Each links to the legislature's own page.

B 26-0175Uniform College Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Act Amendment Act of 2025Enacted 27 February 2026
What it does: Amends the Uniform College Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Act to permit institutions, conferences, and athletic associations to assist college athletes in selecting and paying name, image, or likeness agents and in arranging third-party NIL agreements, and removes the prohibition on institutions or conferences providing compensation to athletes for use of their name, image, or likeness.
Student-athlete NIL
B 26-0240Uniform College Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Temporary Amendment Act of 2025Enacted 12 September 2025
What it requires: Institutions, conferences, and athletic associations may assist college athletes in selecting, arranging for, or providing payment to name, image, or likeness agents and in selecting, arranging for, or collecting payment from third parties engaged in specific name, image, or likeness agreements. Institutions or conferences may provide compensation to college athletes for use of their name, image, or likeness.
Student-athlete NIL
B 26-0306Uniform College Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Congressional Emergency Review Amendment Act of 2025Enacted 25 July 2025
What it requires: Institutions, conferences, and athletic associations may assist college athletes in selecting, arranging for, or providing payment to a name, image, or likeness agent and in selecting, arranging for, or collecting payment from third parties engaged in name, image, or likeness agreements. Institutions or conferences may provide compensation to college athletes for use of their name, image, or likeness.
Student-athlete NIL
B 26-0239Uniform College Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Emergency Amendment Act of 2025Enacted 23 May 2025
What it requires: Institutions, conferences, and athletic associations may assist college athletes in selecting, arranging for, or providing payment to name, image, or likeness agents and in selecting, arranging for, or collecting payment from third parties engaged in specific name, image, or likeness agreements. Institutions or conferences may provide compensation to college athletes for use of their name, image, or likeness.
Student-athlete NIL

Intellectual Property bills in District of Columbia

The bills not yet law, furthest along first, with what each would do.

No bills in this tracker yet. New bills appear as legislatures file them.

Bill titles link to the District of Columbia Legislature's own page.

What LawSignals covers

What counts as intellectual property legislation

In scope are the rights states own: digital replicas and the right of publicity, name, image and likeness including student athletes, restrictive covenants and talent mobility, the treatment of training data and synthetic performances where a state creates a right rather than describing a federal one, and patents: eligibility, Patent Trial and Appeal Board review, bad faith assertion, and the patent and exclusivity rules that govern generic and biosimilar drug entry.

Questions

Does District of Columbia have an intellectual property law?

Yes. District of Columbia enacted 4 intellectual property laws in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, among them B 26-0175, B 26-0240 and B 26-0306. Each is listed on this page with what it requires.

Are these summaries reviewed by a lawyer?

No. Which bills count as Intellectual Property bills, and the line on what each law requires or each bill would do, are drafted by software from the bill's own text and not reviewed by an attorney. Every bill links to the legislature's own record: read the text before relying on it. The list covers bills from the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

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Intellectual Property legislation in other jurisdictions

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