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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that patents and applications that have only ever contained claims with an effective filing date after March 16, 2013—i.e., pure America ...

September 28, 2023 - The post-America Invents Act (AIA) landscape has fundamentally changed how inventors with patents can challenge later-filed patents with overlapping or similar claims as their own ...

The first-to-file provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) took effect on March 16, 2013. The predominant view among patent practitioners is that applicants should in general keep their ...

None of the significant revisions made to U.S. patent laws by the America Invents Act (“AIA”) is more significant than conversion of the U.S. patent system from a “first-to-invent” to a “first-to-file ...

“The CAFC found it plain… that Section 102(e)(1) was simply referencing a specific type of printed publication that becomes prior art as of the date it was filed.” Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

All member countries of the Paris Convention and the PCT approve the novelty of an invention claimed in the patent application going back to the priority date in the origin country. Therefore, as to ...