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Consider a Spherical Patent
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Consider a Spherical Patent

by Joseph E. Gortych
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
267 pages
10h 39m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Consider a Spherical Patent
3.2 What Lies Beneath
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commercial gain (say, as a trade secret) does not preclude patenting the invention
years later.
3.2.9 No sale
An invention is not patentable if it has been for sale or has been oered for sale for
more than 1 year anywhere in the world in a manner that discloses the invention.
Put dierently, from the date of a sale or oer for sale, one has up to 1 year to le
a patent application, at which point the invention becomes unpatentable.
e relevant part of the patent laws that was updated by the AIA is 35 USC
§102(a)(1) states that (emphasis added):
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless—
(1) the claimed invention was patente ...
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