Petition of the day
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on Apr 11, 2018 at 10:17 pm
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Last day of 2013 term
The petition of the day is:
17-1229
Issue: Whether, under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party that is obligated to keep the invention confidential qualifies as prior art for purposes of determining the patentability of the invention.