Patents and the Consultant/Entrepreneur. The 2011 American Invents Act and recent Supreme Court decisions have heralded some of the biggest changes to patent law. In the wake of these reforms, inventors need to be more diligent than ever in their pre-filing strategies to protect their ideas. Ms. Li will provide an overview of the changes to patent law, and address common issues that inventors now face concerning patentability, inadvertent disclosures, prior art, ownership, and post-issuance review. See https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/18961 |