Patently contestable: electrical technologies and inventor identities on trial in Britain

摘要

The UK patenting system is based on a concept of first inventor to file, similar to many other industrialized nations. The passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, signed into law on September 16, 2011, changed the US patent system from the concept of first and true inventor to a system based on first inventor to file. The central provisions of this law went into effect on March 16, 2013. This is a significant change in patent law that is introduced at a point in technological history where economies are shifting from industrial societies to quaternary information societies.