Impact of the Leahy Smith America Invents Act on us Patents
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (2011) was introduced as a jobs-creation bill. The bill introduced significant changes to the US patent law. CNET reports that among the changes was a shift in application policy from first-to-invent (FTI) to first-to-file (FTF). FTI was the policy of issuing patents to those …