§ 102. Conditions for patentability; novelty and loss of right to patent, 35 USCA § 102
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`United States Code Annotated
`Title 35. Patents (Refs & Annos)
`Part II. Patentability of Inventions and Grant of Patents (Refs & Annos)
`Chapter 10. Patentability of Inventions (Refs & Annos)
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`35 U.S.C.A. § 102
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`§ 102. Conditions for patentability; novelty and loss of right to patent
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`Effective: [See Text Amendments] to November 28, 2000
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless--
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`(a) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this
`or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent, or
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`(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on
`sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States, or
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`(c) he has abandoned the invention, or
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`(d) the invention was first patented or caused to be patented, or was the subject of an inventor's certificate, by the
`applicant or his legal representatives or assigns in a foreign country prior to the date of the application for patent in
`this country on an application for patent or inventor's certificate filed more than twelve months before the filing of the
`application in the United States, or
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`(e) the invention was described in a patent granted on an application for patent by another filed in the United States
`before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent, or on an international application by another who has fulfilled
`the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) of section 371(c) of this title before the invention thereof by the applicant
`for patent, or
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`(f) he did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented, or
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`(g) before the applicant's invention thereof the invention was made in this country by another who had not abandoned,
`suppressed, or concealed it. In determining priority of invention there shall be considered not only the respective dates of
`conception and reduction to practice of the invention, but also the reasonable diligence of one who was first to conceive
`and last to reduce to practice, from a time prior to conception by the other.
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`CREDIT(S)
`(July 19, 1952, c. 950, 66 Stat. 797; July 28, 1972, Pub.L. 92-358, § 2, 86 Stat. 502; Nov. 14, 1975, Pub.L. 94-131, §
`5, 89 Stat. 691.)
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`35 U.S.C.A. § 102, 35 USCA § 102
`Current through P.L. 114-254. Also includes P.L. 114-256 to 114-277, and 114-284 to 114-286.
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