THE AMERICA INVENTS – IN SIMPLE TERMS EXPLAINED BY USPTO IN 4 VIDEOS- WE ARE NOW A FIRST TO FILE COUNTRY.
Click to set cust om HTML On September 16, 2011, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA),also called the Patent Reform Act of 2011, was enacted into law. President Obama stated that this “long overdue reform is vital to our ongoing efforts to modernize America’s patent laws.” The changes mostly harmonize US patent law with the rest of the world. A major change is the shift from a first-to-invent system to a first-to-file system. The first-to-file system, whic […]