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- Patent Enforcement after Passage of the America Invents Act: The Comparative Advantages of the ITC and District Court
- Carl C. Charneski, Timothy Q. Delaney, Anastasia (Stacy) Heffner, Jay H. Reiziss and Lyle Vander Schaaf discussed the impact of the recently-enacted America Invents Act on the choice of forum for patent enforcement. They also addressed the relative advantages of the ITC to district courts from the perspective of the patentee and the defendant.
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Patent Reform

On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, also known as the patent reform bill. The America Invents Act makes the most sweeping changes to U.S. patent law in years, including moving the U.S. towards a first-inventor-to-file system, creating new USPTO proceedings for challenging the validity of patents without litigation, providing for priority examination of important technologies, expanding prior user rights as a defense to infringement and mandating the establishment of three satellite offices of the USPTO.

View the American Invents Act.