CREATE Act Strategy Tips

"Patent attorneys may not be able to resist the opportunity to exclude prior art in a pending application, and may tend to use the act on a case-by-case basis in knee-jerk fashion," writes J. Matthew Buchanan at Law.com on February 9, 2005. "Effective use of the new law, though, requires careful thought and planning in all stages of your joint research relationships, starting with the joint research agreement and extending through prosecution of all resulting patent applications."

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