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The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and 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 ...
In United States patent law, "swearing back of a reference" is a process where an inventor, in certain circumstances, can get a US patent even though the invention became public before the inventor filed an original patent application.
AIA Group Limited, [3] often known as AIA (Chinese: 友邦保險; pinyin: Yǒubāng Bǎoxiǎn; Jyutping: Jau5 bong1 bou2 him2), is an American-Hong Kong–based multinational insurance and finance corporation. It is the largest publicly traded life insurance group in the Asia-Pacific region. It offers insurance and financial services, writing ...
Congress already addressed patent trolling once — in 2011 — when it passed the America Invents Act (AIA), bipartisan legislation that created a process at the USPTO called "inter partes review ...
The settlement website says people who change their mailing address after submitting a claim are responsible for alerting the claims administrator about their new contact information. To do that ...
Who is eligible to submit a claim for the iPhone 7 settlement? You may be eligible to claim a piece of Apple's $35 million settlement if you owned an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus between Sept. 16, 2016, and ...
One such defect occurs when the issued patent claims either more or less than the coverage to which the patentee is entitled, the latter situation resulting in a "broadening reissue". Thus, an inventor can submit a reissue application with broader claims and attempt to get the full coverage to which he or she is entitled.
Claims can also be classified in categories, i.e. in terms of what they claim. A claim can refer to a physical entity, i.e. a product (or material) or an apparatus (or device, system, article, ...). The claim is then called respectively "product claim" or "apparatus claim"; or; an activity, i.e. a process (or method) or a use.