Inventors face various pitfalls while seeking to protect their inventions. This presentation will address potential pitfalls that can make intellectual property protection more difficult and expensive than needed. One area of discussion will involve the 'grace period' afforded to inventors under the new U.S. patent laws that went into effect on March 16, 2013, and the negative effects of disclosing an invention prior to filing a patent application, on U.S. patent rights as well as differing effects on international patent rights.

Inventor beware: Potential pitfalls that every inventor should understand

248th National Meeting (2014)

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