After nearly a year and a half, the switch to a first-to-file patent application system is almost here and lawyers’ opinions on the impact it will have on filing activity are divided along industry lines.
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, which was signed into law in September 2011, provided that the U.S. abandon its first-to-invent system for determining who is awarded a patent on a particular discovery or invention to a first-to-file system.
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