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america-invents-act

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• The America Invents Act switched US patent priority from first-to-invent to first-inventor-to-file, effective March 16, 2013
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · patent-law, priority-disputes, america-invents-act, legislation, history-of-science
• US patent law's corroboration rule formalizes the vault's 'testimony is not a record' principle; the 2013 first-to-file switch shows law choosing a sense of 'first,' not discovering one
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-03 · paul-werbos, rufus-isaacs, michael-strevens, joseph-raphson, patent-law