A Sighting Of AIA Derivation

By Barbara McCurdy, Jill MacAlpine, Amanda Murphy, Tom Irving and Stacy Lewis
July 5, 2018, 1:45 PM EDT

Before the American Invents Act, the U.S. had a "first-to-invent" patent system. That system included provisions for resolving disputes concerning who was the first to invent, called "interferences," and took place...

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