U.S. Supreme Court,
Intellectual Property,
Corporate,
Constitutional Law
Sep. 27, 2017
Inter partes reviews and property rights
The Supreme Court will likely have to affirmatively decide this key public vs. private rights issue in Oil States v. Greene's Energy Services.
OCTOBER 2017 TERM
In 2011, Congress passed the America Invents Act. The AIA was designed to essentially complete the “harmonization” process begun by Congress 17 years earlier — to bring U.S. patent law more in line with the law in the rest of the world. As of 2011, the United States remained the only “first-to-invent” country in the world (as between two inventors, a U.S. patent was awarded to the inventor who could demonstrate an earlier inv...
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