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[edit] Requested move

In order to be consistent with United States trademark law and United States copyright law.

  • Support. --Edcolins 20:59, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. Quintusdecimus
  • Support for consistency with well-established naming habits. Jonathunder 21:24, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Because this is very straightforward and noncontroversial, I made the change without waiting for the normal five days. COGDEN 23:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Related Patent Articles

I was looking around today and noticed there really isn't much of a mention in an articles related to the USPTO or US Patent Law that discuss the restriction ideas under the US Law. There is an article for Unity of invention, but it is only used in the US when working on PCT cases. So basically, I was hoping to get some ideas from people concerning their ideas on the placement of an article on the topic and what name convention you think would be best to avoid confusion or if the article could be incorporated into this article. On an aside, does anyone have any opinions or suggestions on how to make this article more informative and not just a link to several other articles covering related concepts? -Thebdj 20:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Constitution

Why isn't the U.S. Constitution mentioned, but title 35 of U.S. federal law is? --71.161.214.252 02:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Because the article is a "stub", nowhere near complete. Oddly, the relevant part of the Constitution manages to be mentioned in patent, where it is a purely incidental matter, rather than being at the very heart of the article's subject as here. Feel free to fix it and add any other relevant matter that you may be able to provide! Tim B 07:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other first to invent systems?

Is the statement about Philippines being the only other first-to-invent system correct? Didn't Canada have first-to-invent? Boundlessly 21:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I think they did...changed in 2002 or something. I've actually removed that sentence on the Philippines (no source, article is on US patent law, not first to invent). Cquan (after the beep...) 22:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)