article thumbnail

Public-Use Bar: What Startups Need to Know

IP Watchdog

Two such pressures that are frequently at odds with each other are the need to adequately protect the intellectual property that will be the basis for future revenue and investment, and the need to bring such revenue and investment into the business to allow for continued technology development and commercialization.

article thumbnail

Public use == “accessible to the public.”

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Bottom line in this new Minerva case — file your patent application before bringing a new product to a trade show. ” The invention was not yet “ready for patenting” and therefore its public use was not disqualifying. .” It was also pitched to a potential acquirer.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Intellectual Property Rights and Federally Funded Research

LexBlog IP

However, if the Contractor fails to report any inventions to the contracting officer within two months of preparing the corresponding patent applications, the Contractor risks losing ownership of those inventions. The nations in which the Contractor seeks to file the patent application. important;}}.

article thumbnail

Federal Contracting; Contractor Disclosure to Funding Agencies and Agency March-in Rights

LexBlog IP

First, contractors have a duty of disclosure to their funding agency that is separate from the duty of disclosure for patent applications. Standard patent rights clauses. (c) c) Invention Disclosure, Election of Title and Filing of Patent Application by Contractor. (1) Patent rights under federally funded research.

article thumbnail

Yes, A Secret Process Can (Still) Create an On-Sale Bar

IP Tech Blog

The pre-AIA version of the §102 on-sale bar stated that a person shall be entitled to a patent unless “(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States.”

article thumbnail

Yes, A Secret Process Can (Still) Create an On-Sale Bar

LexBlog IP

The pre-AIA version of the §102 on-sale bar stated that a person shall be entitled to a patent unless “(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States.”

article thumbnail

Post-Grant Review

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Together, they collectively replace inter partes reexamination, with post-grant review being available immediately after patent issuance, and inter partes review becoming available only after the period for post-grant review has passed.