The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama...

until the enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, the United States operated under a first-to-invent. The interference proceeding...

Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act (PCIP). He also co-sponsored the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act. As the...

raises a "substantial new question of patentability". The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act makes substantial changes to the U.S. patent system, including...

Court, and in September of that year, the enactment of the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act effectively removed qui tam remedies from § 292. The historical...

The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 82–256, 66 Stat. 3, enacted February 1, 1952, codified at 35 U.S.C. ch. 17)...

of millions of dollars for high-volume consumer goods. The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act revised section 292 to say that only the United States may...

The Bayh–Dole Act or Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act (Pub. L. 96-517, December 12, 1980) is United States legislation permitting ownership by contractors...

uniformity of the patent case law in the country. In 2011, the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) enacted the most significant change to the U.S. patent...

International Association Access to Information Act, a Canadian freedom of information act Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Anglo-Irish Agreement, a 1985 agreement...

America Invents Act, Pub. L. No. 112-29, sec. 14(b). Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. No. 112–29, sec. 14(c). Leahy-Smith America Invents Act...

chief negotiator in the passage and implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act; signed into law by President Barack Obama in September 2011...

ruled that within context of Leahy-Smith, the government does not constitute a "person". The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act was passed in 2011 to refine...

patentability. It was formed on September 16, 2012, as one part of the America Invents Act. Prior to its formation, the main judicial body in the USPTO was...

progressively implementing a first-to-file system pursuant to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. It has been said that first-to-file eliminates a troubling...

term under the 1790 Patent Act was decided individually for each patent, but "not exceeding fourteen years". The 1836 Patent Act (5 Stat. 117, 119, 5) provided...

inventive step. However, United States patent law before the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) included the Hilmer doctrine, under which United States...

In United States patent law since the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), a derivation proceeding is a trial proceeding under 35 U.S.C. § 135 conducted...

in filing a declaratory judgment action. Subsequent to the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (2011), any third party can challenge the validity of an issued...

Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (Public Law 98-417), informally known as the Hatch-Waxman Act, is a 1984 United States federal law that...

patent law with regard to applications not subject to the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act, since an inventor has one year after the publication of the...

the effective date of the first-to-file provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), although this procedure is still available in patent...

status is a further status, which was introduced with the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA), enacted in 2011. The small entity status allows small...

litigation has significantly increased since 2011, when the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act—the most recent patent law—was passed. The litigation has moved...

criteria of this section. This section of US code was affected by the America Invents Act (AIA). The most important part of section 102 now reads as follows:...

Supreme Court may ultimately decide on a patent case. Under the America Invents Act, the BPAI was converted to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board or "PTAB"...

review procedure was enacted on September 16, 2012 as part of the America Invents Act. It replaced a previous review procedure called inter partes reexamination...

changed dramatically in the past two years, and the changes (of the America Invents Act of 2011) are working to eliminate the need for the sweeping changes...

patent exhaustion doctrine. 2011. Sixth Patent Act (America Invents Act) switched from first-to-invent to first-to-file. 2012-2013. In Mayo and Myriad...

to file patent system - in 2011, President Obama signed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, which shifted the United States to a first-inventor-to-file...