Intellectual Property,
Civil Litigation
Sep. 28, 2021
Inter partes review a decade into the AIA
The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on Sept. 16, 2011. With its main provisions taking effect on Sept. 16, 2012 and March 16, 2013, the AIA is the most significant legislative change to the United States patent system since the Patent Act of 1952.
Daniel N. Yannuzzi
Partner
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Email: dyannuzzi@sheppardmullin.com
Daniel is a co-chair of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Intellectual Property Practice Group and has more than 25 years of experience in strategic portfolio development and counseling, patent prosecution, patent appeals and inter partes reviews. Dan is a former NASA engineer who also served as VP, chief intellectual property counsel to a multi-billion dollar semiconductor company.
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on Sept. 16, 2011. With its main provisions taking effect on Sept. 16, 2012 and March 16, 2013, the AIA is the most significant legislative change to the United States patent system since the Patent Act of 1952. Among other things, the AIA shifted the United States patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system, eliminated interference proceedings, ...
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