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A claim can be simultaneously valid and infringed - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Claim construction is done from the perspective of a PHOSITA - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Provisional applications do not themselves issue as patents - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔TRUE
,The more limitations included in a claim, the broader the claim becomes - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
Claim construction occurs both in court and in patent office proceedings - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
In Morse, the Supreme Court held even the broadest claims of the patent
valid - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
A valid dependent claim can be broader than the independent claim on
which it depends - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
Which of the following are not considered intrinsic evidence? Words of the
claim, words of other claims of the same patent, testimony of inventor,
none of the above - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Testimony of the inventor
Comprising is a transition word meaning that nothing can be added to the
recited elements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
Put generally, the AIA created a "first to invent" patent system, rather than
"first to file" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
Pre-AIA, the prior art rules differed depending on whether certain activities
were in the US or abroad - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
, What word is a synonym for an invention being a "not new" idea?
Obviousness, art, priority, anticipation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Anticipation
The concept of protective publication was created by the AIA - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔TRUE
What is a key function of 102? Defines obviousness, defines what
constitutes prior art, requires inventions to be useful, ensures full
disclosures of inventions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Defines what constitutes prior art
The AIA affected the meaning/timing of the "critical date" for patent
applications - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
If a utility patent properly claims a provisional, when is the critical date? The
provisional app filing date, the patent issue date, 1 year before the utility
app filing date, 1 year before provisional app filing date - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1
year before the provisional app filing date
The AIA effectively eliminated the "grace period" for inventor disclosures - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
If an art reference discloses a chair, it inherently discloses a chair with 4
legs and a back - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
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