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The U.S. Patent Act precludes the granting of a patent if the claimed invention was in public use, on sale or otherwise available to the public more than one year prior to the effective filing date of the...more
Napoleon Hill once famously said, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
However, what the mind of man can conceive is not necessarily patentable. Courts have long held that laws of nature,...more
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