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What is considered a public disclosure of an invention?

Almost any disclosure made without an obligation of confidentiality may constitute public disclosure.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

  • Journal articles 
  • Conference abstracts or presentations 
  • Online publications or website postings 
  • Dissertations indexed through the library 
  • Oral discussions describing the invention in sufficient detail for someone else to make or use it 
  • Selling or offering for sale a prototype of the invention
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