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23 January 2019Patents

SCOTUS ruling on confidential sales: lawyers comment

A decision by the US Supreme Court yesterday will mean no change to the long-standing rules that apply to the “on-sale” bar, but may reduce the incentive for inventors to carry out confidential sales of their inventions, lawyers have told WIPR.

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