Course Content
MODULE 3: 35 USC 102 & THE AIA
SECTION 3-1 : 35 USC 102 – Introduction
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SECTION 5-1 : AIA Introduction
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SECTION 5-2 : First Inventor To File
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MODULE 5:AIA Focus Sections
SECTION 5-3 : AIA – Ethics and Practice Before the USPTO
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SECTION 5-4 : AIA – Administrative Patent Trials
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SECTION 5-5 : AIA – Best Mode
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SECTION 5-6 : AIA – Citation of Patent Owner Statements Regarding Claim Scope
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SECTION 5-7 : AIA – Covered Business Method Patents
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SECTION 5-8 : AIA – Derivation Proceeding
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SECTION 5-9 : AIA – Fees
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SECTION 5-10 : Human Organisms
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SECTION 5-11 : AIA – Inter Partes Re-Examination
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SECTION 5-12 : AIA – Inter Partes Review
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SECTION 5-13 : AIA – Inventors Oath
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SECTION 5-14 : AIA – Micro Entities
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SECTION 5-15 : AIA – Patent Prosecution Highway
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SECTION 5-16 : AIA – Post Grant Review
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SECTION 5-17 : AIA- Pre Issuance Submission
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SECTION 5-18 : AIA – Prior User Rights Defense
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SECTION 5-19 : AIA – Prioritized Exam
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SECTION 5-20 : AIA – Supplemental Examination
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SECTION 5-21 : AIA – Tax Strategies
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01. AIA Study Suite

35 USC 102(a)(2): effective filing date

“A person shall be entitled to a patent unless — the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.”


Effective filing date

  • In order to be considered prior art, any of the previously named documents in this section must have an effective filing date before the effective filing date of the patent application under examination
  • In other words, they also have to meet 102(a)(1) requirements.
  • AIA Changes: Applications having an effective filing date on or after March 16 will be examined under the AIA’s first-inventor-to-file provisions