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led later (if within a 1-year grace period from the rst date of disclosure) from
someone else’s published art arising aer the disclosure date. is is true even if
the other person’s published art was independently developed and even earlier
developed.
All of this is to show that the time line of events associated with a given patent
application or patent are important and subject to some fairly nuanced laws. e
various time line dates and the contents of the various documents involved all
will matter and be scrutinized if the invention turns out to matter to someone
other ...