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Statutory Text vs. Precedent: Analyzing the AIA’s On-Sale Bar for Secret Processes in Celanese v. ITC

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patent law over the past several decades, the America Invents Act of 2011 was clearly the most dramatic rewriting of the law since 1952. 102(a)(1) now reads: A person shall be entitled to a patent unless. (a)(1) My bet is on the precedent. Although Congress has repeatedly tinkered with U.S. 35 U.S.C.