AMERICA INVENTS—AND SO CAN YOU? THE DICHOTOMY OF SUBJECT-MATTER ELIGIBILITY CHALLENGES IN POST-GRANT PROCEEDINGS

• Published in: Columbia law review Vol. 115; no. 6; pp. 1521 - 1561
• Main Author: Ho, Krystina L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Columbia Law School 01.10.2015; Columbia Law Review Association, Inc
• Subjects: Abstract ideas; Alternative dispute resolution; BUSINESS; Companies; Impact analysis; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; Inventions; Inventors; Inventors & inventions; Jurisprudence; Labeling; Law and legislation; Legal proceedings; Legislatures; LITIGATION; Patent and Trademark Office Society (U.S.); Patent applications; Patent infringement; Patent law; Patent laws and legislation; Reforms; Statutes; Statutes of limitations; Studies; Trademarks; Trials; UNITED STATES; United States > US

In 2011, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, a broad-sweeping reform of the American patent system. Within this landmark piece of legislation, Congress created trial-like administrative proceedings as a cost-effective alternative to litigation. Inter partes review allows third parti...