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First to File Risks to Individual Inventors

David Abrams and Dennis Crouch have published a comparative study on the switch from a first-to-invent system to a first-to-file system in Canada and applied the analysis to the potential change to the US patent system by the America Invents Act.  Read it here.  It posits that a reduction in patent activity by small inventors is likely.

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