Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Pub. L. 112–29

US Codex doesn’t hold the enacted text of this law — the public-law corpus runs from the 113th Congress (2013) onward. What it changed in the U.S. Code, reconstructed from the credit notes, is listed below.

97 sections of the Code credited to this law, found between Public Law 111-383 and Public Law 112-90.

• 15 U.S.C. § 1071 — Appeal to courts
• 28 U.S.C. § 1295 — Jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• 28 U.S.C. § 1338 — Patents, plant variety protection, copyrights, mask works, designs, trademarks, and unfair competition
• 28 U.S.C. § 1454 — Patent, plant variety protection, and copyright cases
• 35 U.S.C. § 2 — Powers and duties
• 35 U.S.C. § 3 — Officers and employees
• 35 U.S.C. § 6 — Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
• 35 U.S.C. § 12 — Copies of patents and applications for public libraries
• 35 U.S.C. § 32 — Suspension or exclusion from practice
• 35 U.S.C. § 41 — Patent fees; patent and trademark search systems
• 35 U.S.C. § 42 — Patent and Trademark Office funding
• 35 U.S.C. § 100 — Definitions
• 35 U.S.C. § 102 — Conditions for patentability; novelty and loss of right to patent
• 35 U.S.C. § 103 — Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter
• 35 U.S.C. § 104 — Invention made abroad
• 35 U.S.C. § 111 — Application
• 35 U.S.C. § 112 — Specification
• 35 U.S.C. § 115 — Oath of applicant
• 35 U.S.C. § 116 — Inventors
• 35 U.S.C. § 118 — Filing by other than inventor
• 35 U.S.C. § 119 — Benefit of earlier filing date; right of priority
• 35 U.S.C. § 120 — Benefit of earlier filing date in the United States
• 35 U.S.C. § 121 — Divisional applications
• 35 U.S.C. § 122 — Confidential status of applications; publication of patent applications
• 35 U.S.C. § 123 — Micro entity defined
• 35 U.S.C. § 132 — Notice of rejection; reexamination
• 35 U.S.C. § 134 — Appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
• 35 U.S.C. § 135 — Interferences
• 35 U.S.C. § 141 — Appeal to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• 35 U.S.C. § 143 — Proceedings on appeal
• 35 U.S.C. § 145 — Civil action to obtain patent
• 35 U.S.C. § 146 — Civil action in case of interference
• 35 U.S.C. § 154 — Contents and term of patent; provisional rights
• 35 U.S.C. § 156 — Extension of patent term
• 35 U.S.C. § 157 — Statutory invention registration
• 35 U.S.C. § 162 — Description, claim
• 35 U.S.C. § 172 — Right of priority
• 35 U.S.C. § 182 — Abandonment of invention for unauthorized disclosure
• 35 U.S.C. § 183 — Right to compensation
• 35 U.S.C. § 184 — Filing of application in foreign country
• 35 U.S.C. § 185 — Patent barred for filing without license
• 35 U.S.C. § 186 — Penalty
• 35 U.S.C. § 202 — Disposition of rights
• 35 U.S.C. § 207 — Domestic and foreign protection of federally owned inventions
• 35 U.S.C. § 209 — Licensing federally owned inventions
• 35 U.S.C. § 210 — Precedence of chapter
• 35 U.S.C. § 251 — Reissue of defective patents
• 35 U.S.C. § 253 — Disclaimer
• 35 U.S.C. § 256 — Correction of named inventor
• 35 U.S.C. § 257 — Supplemental examinations to consider, reconsider, or correct information
• 35 U.S.C. § 267 — Time for taking action in Government applications
• 35 U.S.C. § 273 — Defense to infringement based on prior commercial use
• 35 U.S.C. § 282 — Presumption of validity; defenses
• 35 U.S.C. § 284 — Damages
• 35 U.S.C. § 287 — Limitation on damages and other remedies; marking and notice
• 35 U.S.C. § 288 — Action for infringement of a patent containing an invalid claim
• 35 U.S.C. § 291 — Interfering patents
• 35 U.S.C. § 292 — False marking
• 35 U.S.C. § 293 — Nonresident patentee; service and notice
• 35 U.S.C. § 294 — Voluntary arbitration
• 35 U.S.C. § 298 — Advice of counsel
• 35 U.S.C. § 299 — Joinder of parties
• 35 U.S.C. § 301 — Citation of prior art
• 35 U.S.C. § 302 — Request for reexamination
• 35 U.S.C. § 303 — Determination of issue by Director
• 35 U.S.C. § 304 — Reexamination order by Director
• 35 U.S.C. § 305 — Conduct of reexamination proceedings
• 35 U.S.C. § 306 — Appeal
• 35 U.S.C. § 307 — Certificate of patentability, unpatentability, and claim cancellation
• 35 U.S.C. § 311 — Request for inter partes reexamination
• 35 U.S.C. § 312 — Determination of issue by Director
• 35 U.S.C. § 313 — Inter partes reexamination order by Director
• 35 U.S.C. § 314 — Conduct of inter partes reexamination proceedings
• 35 U.S.C. § 315 — Appeal
• 35 U.S.C. § 316 — Certificate of patentability, unpatentability, and claim cancellation
• 35 U.S.C. § 317 — Inter partes reexamination prohibited
• 35 U.S.C. § 318 — Stay of litigation
• 35 U.S.C. § 319 — Appeal
• 35 U.S.C. § 321 — Post-grant review
• 35 U.S.C. § 322 — Petitions
• 35 U.S.C. § 323 — Preliminary response to petition
• 35 U.S.C. § 324 — Institution of post-grant review
• 35 U.S.C. § 325 — Relation to other proceedings or actions
• 35 U.S.C. § 326 — Conduct of post-grant review
• 35 U.S.C. § 327 — Settlement
• 35 U.S.C. § 328 — Decision of the Board
• 35 U.S.C. § 329 — Appeal
• 35 U.S.C. § 363 — International application designating the United States: Effect
• 35 U.S.C. § 365 — Right of priority; benefit of the filing date of a prior application
• 35 U.S.C. § 368 — Secrecy of certain inventions; filing international applications in foreign countries
• 35 U.S.C. § 371 — National stage: Commencement
• 35 U.S.C. § 372 — National stage: Requirements and procedure
• 35 U.S.C. § 373 — Improper applicant
• 35 U.S.C. § 374 — Publication of international application
• 35 U.S.C. § 375 — Patent issued on international application: Effect
• 42 U.S.C. § 2182 — Inventions conceived during Commission contracts; ownership; waiver; hearings
• 51 U.S.C. § 20135 — Property rights in inventions