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In the U.S., public disclosure of an invention results in the loss of patentability of the invention after a period of one year. [3]35 U.S.C. § 102 establishes various statutory bars to invention patentability with regard to invention novelty; these explicit bars preclude patentability as exceptions to a general underlying entitlement.
Changes to the Public Disclosure Bar. Under the previous version of the FCA, cases filed by private individuals or "relators" could be barred if it was determined that such cases were based on a public disclosure of information arising from certain proceedings, such as civil, criminal or administrative hearings, or news media reports.
Panama Papers: Public disclosure of 11.5 million leaked documents detailing attorney–client information for more than 214,000 offshore companies associated with the Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider, Mossack Fonseca. Paradise Papers: Public disclosure of 13.4 million leaked documents relating to offshore investments.
The agency maintains a public database of financial disclosure forms and ethics agreements that top government employees have filed, including Trump’s Cabinet appointees.
Public disclosure of private facts: the dissemination of truthful private information which a reasonable person would find objectionable; False light: the publication of facts which place a person in a false light, even though the facts themselves may not be defamatory
Rockwell International Corp. v. United States, 549 U.S. 457 (2007), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court examined the "original source" exception to the "public-disclosure" bar of the False Claims Act. The Court held that (1) the original source requirement of the FCA provision setting for the original-source exception to ...
[16] [17] Civil privacy expects against: (1) intrusion upon seclusion or solitude, or into private affairs; (2) public disclosure of embarrassing private facts; (3) publicity which places a person in a false light in the public eye; and (4) appropriation of name or likeness. [15]
The Washington Coalition for Open Government (COG) was formed from several political groups in June 1971 to push for public disclosure legislation. [2] The state legislature had debated laws on campaign disclosures repeatedly beginning in 1963 and passed an open meetings law in the 1971 session, but avoided addressing public records. [3]