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Perspective

Dec. 20, 2011

America will keep on inventing

The America Invents Act is poised to alter the landscape of inventive activity in the U.S. By Michael M. Rosen of Fish & Richardson PC


By Michael M. Rosen


If necessity is the mother of invention, as Plato opined, then the necessity of updating our patent system gave birth to the America Invents Act, the most sweeping legislative change in decades affecting how we award and enforce inventive rights.


As the Act begins to take hold, inventors, technology companies, and their attorneys should pay special attention to certain key provisions that will, in certain significant ways, alter the...

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