Forbes

How Entrepreneurs Can Thrive Under the "First-Inventor-to-File" Patent System

In September 2011, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA) into law. Under one of the most important provisions of the AIA, the longstanding first-to-invent patent system will be replaced ...
IPWatchdog

USPTO Publishes Final Rules and Guidelines Governing First-Inventor-to-File

Washington—The U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today published final rules of practice implementing the first-inventor-to-file provision of the ...
Business Wire

First To File’s Electronic File Room Provides Distinct Advantage to IP Law Firms and Patent Counsel as New America Invents Act Rules Become Effective Tomorrow

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tomorrow, Section 3 of the America Invents Act (AIA) goes into effect, rendering a shift to award patents to the first-inventor-to-file rather than to those ...
TechCrunch

First-To-File Patent Law Is Imminent, But What Will It Mean?

Editor’s note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual ...
Managingip.com

Guest post: Is the first-inventor-to-file system constitutional?

In a guest post to the Managing IP blog, Michele C Bosch and Anthony J Lombardi of Finnegan in Washington DC and Reston VA respectively explain why a constitutional challenge to the recently enacted ...
Managingip.com

IP Clinic: How has first-inventor-to-file changed patent strategy?

The US now has a first-to-file system, thanks to the America Invents Act. How are different parties reacting? The first-to-file (FTF) regime represents a big change in the statutes and the regulations ...