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Clarity on Patent Eligibility Law Could Be Coming In 2022

The murkiness around patent eligibility is one reason innovators have been turning more toward trade secret law to protect their inventions.

8 minute read February 01, 2022 at 12:23 AM
By
Scott Graham
Clarity on Patent Eligibility Law Could Be Coming In 2022

IP lawyers are looking for something in 2022 that's been elusive for the last decade: clarity on patent eligibility law.

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