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My (limited) understanding is you can still argue prior art to invalidate the patent. First to file would only come up if both SpaceX and a Chinese company had
by statusgraph 14y ago
My (limited) understanding is you can still argue prior art to invalidate the patent. First to file would only come up if both SpaceX and a Chinese company had patents and went to court.
The wiki article expounds a little:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy-Smith_America_Invents_Act#First_to_file_and_grace_period http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy-Smith_America_Invents_Act...
- enraged_camel 14y ago>>First to file would only come up if both SpaceX and a Chinese company had patents and went to court. If they went to court in the same country, you mean.
- _k 14y agoI've seen companies enter into a partnership with a Chinese company to manufacture niche products. A few years in, the partnership is stopped and the Chinese company copies everything, shows up on trade shows, etc. There's nothing you can do about it. Patents don't matter in China. Customers buy the products in China.