Grant Submissions and Novelty: A Catch-22 for Startups
Grant Submissions and Novelty: A Catch-22 for Startups The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011 brought sweeping changes to the landscape of Patent Law. Among other things, the AIA expanded the scope of potential prior art by explicitly treating all information which is not only “described in a printed publication” but also “otherwise available…