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The America Invents Act:Impact on Licensing
Mark H. WebbinkSenior Lecturing Fellow
Duke University School of Law
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• New Prior Art Rules• Opportunities to Challenge Validity• Saving a Patent• Other AIA Changes
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LIMITATIONS ON SCOPE:PRIOR ART
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Prior art now defined by filing date
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Maintains one‐year grace period
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Cannot claim someone else’s disclosed invention
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Obviousness measured from filing date, not date of invention
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No geographic limitation on prior art
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Hilmer doctrine abolished
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Prior art distinctions from EPC
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Private offers for sale?
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Tax avoidance, reduction, deferral strategies barred
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CHANGING OR CHALLENGING THESCOPE OF CLAIMS
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Derivation proceeding
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Public disclosure
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Direct Patent Validity Challenges
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Post‐grant review
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None‐month window from date of issuance
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Lower threshold of proof thaninter partes reexamination
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Must file before DJ action(but not counterclaim)
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Broader basis for seeking review
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Legal estoppel of filer• All forums• Regardless of appeal• On grounds that reasonably could have been raised
• Virtually bars invalidity defense in litigation
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Post‐grant review not overly attractive
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Inter partes review
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Only available after post‐grant review period expires
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Differences with post‐grant review• Available for all patents• Must be filed within one year of litigation commencement
• Different threshold for review• Limited to prior art grounds• Does not bar invalidity defense on other grounds
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Prior Commercial Use
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Prior Commercial Use Defense• Clear and convincing evidence• Good faith commercial use• At least one year prior to filing or disclosure
• Personal defense
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Business Methods
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Business Method Transitional Program• Only for eight years• Standards and procedures of post‐grant review
• Filing window same as inter partes review
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Invites proactive approach
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SAVING A PATENT
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Reissue
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Supplemental Examination
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No longer need to provide patent number
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No more private Qui Tam actions
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