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Federal patent law preempts state law on inventorship By John M. Augustyn Intellectual Property, March 2000 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that federal patent law preempts state law standards for determining inventorship.
New law affects patents, copyrights and the Internet By John M. Augustyn Intellectual Property, March 2000 On November 29, 1999, President Clinton signed a bill (H.R. 3194, Pub. L. No. 106-113) containing changes affecting patents, copyrights and the Internet.
A sales offer with product drawings did not establish on-sale validity for method patent By John M. Augustyn Intellectual Property, March 2000 Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that an offer to sell a device (which included drawings of the device but not drawings of the method) did not establish on-sale invalidity because the drawings did not reveal the claimed method.

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