42 U.S.C. § 2185 — Prior art
submitted 80 years ago by ch. 724 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 53 words · no verdicts yet
For patents covered by this subchapter, earlier knowledge or use of the invention prevents patenting even if that knowledge or use was secret within the United States atomic-energy program.
For an application for a patent covered by this subchapter, the fact that the invention or discovery was known or used earlier prevents a patent on it. This is true even when the earlier knowledge or use was secret within the United States atomic-energy program.
In connection with applications for patents covered by this subchapter, the fact that the invention or discovery was known or used before shall be a bar to the patenting of such invention or discovery even though such prior knowledge or use was under secrecy within the atomic energy* program of the United States.
Source credit: (Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 155, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 947; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)
- 1946Enacted · Act of Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724 · 68 Stat. 947
- 1992Amended · Pub. L. 102-486 · 106 Stat. 2944
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