legislation

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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
The 1890 Organic Act reassigned the Signal Corps' civilian weather duties to a new Weather Bureau under Agriculture, leaving the Signal Corps intact as a military body

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · meteorology, institutions, military-history, weather-bureau, agriculture