USPTO Publishes Final Rules and Guidelines Governing First-Inventor-to-File | IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law
February 14, 2013
USPTO Publishes Final Rules and Guidelines Governing First-Inventor-to-File | IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law. Pursuant to the AIA, the USPTO published thee final rules of practice implementing the first-inventor-to-file provisions, which become effective March 16, 2013. Other AIA related rules were published today as well, including, as ipwatchdog reports, “the agency’s interpretation of how the first-inventor-to-file provision alters novelty and obviousness determinations for an invention claimed in a patent application.”
