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Patent Law: Identifying Prior Art

updated Oct., 2020

Articles

Tyson B. Benson & Ryan T. Grace,  Neb. Law. May-June 2013, at 19 -22. HeinOnline. 

Eric W. Guttag, Applying the Printed Publication Bar in the Internet Age: Is it as Simple as Googling for Prior Art, 16 Va. J.L. & Tech. 66 -115 (2011). HeinOnline. 

Michael Hawes & Natalie Alfaro, Commercial Prior Art for Software Patents When Claimed Methods Are on Sale, 5 Landslide  Nov.- Dec. 2012, at 32 - 36. HeinOnline. 

Timothy R. Holbrook, Patent Anticipation and Obviousness as Possession, 65 Emory L.J. 987 -1050 (2016). HeinOnline. 

Timothy R. Holbrook, Patent Prior Art and Possession, 60 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 123 -194 (2018).  HeinOnline.

Amir H. Khoury & Ron Bekkerman, Automatic Discovery of Prior Art: Big Data to the Rescue of the Patent System, 16 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. [i], 45 - 65 (2016).  HeinOnline. 

Joseph A. Lingenfelter, Putting the Public back in Public Use: Interpreting the 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, 31 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 867, 914 (2015). HeinOnline

Brice C. Lynch, International Patent Harmonization: Creating a Binding Prior Art Search within the Patent Cooperation Treaty, 44 Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev. 403 - 428 (2012). HeinOnline. 

Robert P. Merges, Priority and Novelty under the AIA, 27 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1023, -1046 (2012). HeinOnline.

James H. Richardson, Are Prior Art Citation Determinative of Patent Approval: An Empirical Analysis of the Strategy behind Citing Prior Art, 7 Hastings Sci. & Tech. L.J. 25 - 42 (2015). HeinOnline.

Sean B. Seymore, When Patents Claim Preexisting Knowledge, 50 U.C.D. L. Rev. 1965, 1998 (2017). HeinOnline. 

Brenda M. Simon, Rules, Standards, and the Reality of Obviousness, 65 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 25 - 62 (2014). HeinOnline. 

Jasper L. Tran, Timing Matters: Prior Art's Age Infers Patent Nonovbiousness, 50 Gonz. L. Rev. 189, 218 (2014). HeinOnline.

Moshe Wilensky, The Past and Future of Admitted Prior Art, 21 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 237-254 (2013). HeinOnline.