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  1. James Broadhead (jbo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 20:53:29 UTC James Broadhead James Broadhead
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    @mcc I don't think that the US respects prior art since https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy%E2%80%93Smith_America_Invents_Act sadly

    In conversation Monday, 02-Jan-2023 20:53:29 UTC from mastodon.social permalink

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      Leahy–Smith America Invents Act
      The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The law represents the most significant legislative change to the U.S. patent system since the Patent Act of 1952 and closely resembles previously proposed legislation in the Senate in its previous session (Patent Reform Act of 2009).Named for its lead sponsors, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the Act switches the U.S. patent system from a "first to invent" to a "first inventor to file" system, eliminates interference proceedings, and develops post-grant opposition. Its central provisions went into effect on September 16, 2012 and on March 16, 2013. Provisions First to file and grace period The law switched the U.S. rights to a patent from the previous "first-to-invent" system to a "first inventor-to-file" system for patent applications filed on or after March 16, 2013. The law also expanded the definition of prior art used in...
    • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 20:53:30 UTC mcc mcc

      Apple is probably releasing their VR/AR product this year, which means they're probably going to patent a *bunch* of stuff which is wildly obvious but just coincidentally has never been shipped before. So it's occurring to me it is a good idea to start publicly documenting various "hey, you know what would be a good idea to do in VR" ideas, so we can point to it as prior art when the lawsuit happens.

      Some things I've been thinking about for years:

      In conversation Monday, 02-Jan-2023 20:53:30 UTC permalink

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