What is the significance of the grace period in relation to intervening disclosures?
The grace period is significant in relation to intervening disclosures because it protects inventors from certain disclosures made by third parties during the one-year period before the effective filing date of the claimed invention. MPEP 2155.02 explains: “The exception in AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1)(B) applies if the ‘subject matter disclosed [in the intervening disclosure] had,…
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