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The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 (Pub. L. 82–256, 66 Stat. 3, enacted February 1, 1952, codified at 35 U.S.C. ch. 17) is a body of United States federal law designed to prevent disclosure of new inventions and technologies that, in the opinion of selected federal agencies, present an alleged threat to the economic stability or national security of the United States.
On May 2, 2013, Texas enacted Senate Bill 953, [4] becoming the 47th state to adopt the UTSA. [5] The Texas statute took effect on September 1, 2013. [5] Massachusetts adopted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act effective October 1, 2018. [6] The UTSA has also been adopted in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
An invention disclosure, or invention disclosure report, is a confidential document written by a scientist or engineer for use by a company's patent department, or by an external patent attorney, to determine whether patent protection should be sought for the described invention. [1] It may follow a standardized form established within a ...
IPMM Invention Disclosure Standard was ratified in 2015. This is a set of XML schemas that can validate an XML document containing invention disclosure data. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
A person who practices that invention without the permission of the patent holder infringes that patent. More specifically, an infringement occurs where the defendant has made, used, sold, offered to sell, or imported an infringing invention or its equivalent. [1] No infringement action may be started until the patent is issued.
When an inventor conceives of an invention and diligently reduces the invention to practice (by filing a patent application, by making, testing, and improving prototypes, etc.), the inventor's date of invention will be the date of conception. Thus, provided an inventor is diligent in actually reducing an application to practice, he or she will ...
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) is a state agency of Texas. It has its headquarters in Suite 1300 in the William P. Clements Building in Downtown Austin . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The information submitted in an IDS typically includes other issued patents, published patent applications, scientific journal articles, books, magazine articles, or any other published material that is relevant to the invention disclosed in the applicant's own patent application, irrespective of the country or language in which the published material was made.