35 U.S.C. § 211 — Relationship to antitrust laws

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This patent law doesn't shield anyone from antitrust liability. Nothing in this chapter gives immunity from civil or criminal antitrust liability. It also doesn't create any new legal defense against an antitrust lawsuit.

This section makes clear that this chapter, about patent rights in federally funded inventions, doesn't touch antitrust law. Nothing in this chapter gives any person immunity — protection from being sued or prosecuted — from civil or criminal liability under antitrust law. It also doesn't create any new legal defense someone could use to fight an antitrust claim.

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Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to convey to any person immunity from civil or criminal liability, or to create any defenses to actions, under any antitrust law.

Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 96–517, § 6(a), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3027.)

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1980Enacted · Pub. L. 96-517 · 94 Stat. 3027

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