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Leahy–Smith America Invents Act

Leahy–Smith America Invents Act

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Sep 22, 2026

Eric HintzGUEST
7:40
And we'd even go one more, right? Like, so because some of these big judgments were coming down in the 80s and 90s, the corporations start lobbying the patent committees in Congress for reforms.
Eric HintzGUEST
7:50
And so then in 2011, you get the America Invents Act and you kind of, you change the patent term to 20 years from the point of application versus 17 from the point of issuance, right? The idea there is to sort of cut down on submarine patents to make sure that you don't have these long pending patents.
Eric HintzGUEST
8:09
And then some individual inventor kind of pops up and can put a corporation in jeopardy.
Eric HintzGUEST
8:13
So I think your observation historically is interesting that the pendulum is always kind of swinging back and forth about kind of who has the upper hand, whether it's an individual or corporation legally.

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