Timeline for US8550406 - How can you patent something that exists?
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| Mar 22, 2015 at 17:32 | comment | added | Gary S | As a general rule, publishing the invention prior to a third party filing would (post-America Invents Act) be a bar to patentability, but there are some exceptions, particularly where it is in the inventor who publishes. Once you hit this level of complexity, hiring a patent lawyer makes sense. See uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/… | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 19:34 | comment | added | cpast | If inventor 1 had publicized his invention on January 20, that would prevent inventor 2 from patenting it (even if they independently invented it). Prior art is a bar to a patent. | |
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 22:48 | history | answered | Gary S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |