Hey, inventors, c’mon in; the waters for testing your ideas just got more inviting. Thanks to a June ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, it’s harder for anyone to steal your patents. And it’s easier for you to take advantage of the patent law’s yearlong grace period to investigate the commercial potential of your brainstorms.
In fact, the decision in Group One Ltd. v. Hallmark Inc. has so changed the playing field that several patent lawyers, who wished to remain anonymous, said they’re now trying to settle cases.
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