Intellectual Property
Jul. 4, 2013
Historic patent act whets Washington's appetite
Commentators suggested that IP issues were not likely to rise to prominence again anytime soon because the America Invents Act was just enacted. Those commentators were wrong.
On March 16, the most significant provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) came into force. The AIA was seen as the most extensive alteration to patent law in half a century, and was hotly debated over nearly a decade. The changes under the AIA were in some ways fundamental, moving us from a "first to invent" system to the system used in the rest of the world that rewards the first inventor to file a patent application. Particularly in view of the other issues commanding the attention...
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