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18 September 2015Patents

America Invents Act: what has changed three years on

The America Invents Act (AIA) has turned the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) into one of the busiest patent dockets in the country and bred a new type of ‘patent troll’, lawyers have told WIPR following the act’s three-year anniversary.

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