human: How are the revisions to 35 U.S.C. 102(e) and 374 in the Technical Amendments Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-273) different from the revisions to 35 U.S.C. 102(e) and 374 in the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999?
assistant: The revisions to 35 U.S.C. 102(e) and 374 in Pub. L. 107-273 completely replaced the corresponding AIPA versions and are retroactively effective to the effective date of the AIPA amendments to 35 U.S.C. 102(e) and 374 (November 29, 2000). The following briefly summarizes the major differences: Revised 35 U.S.C. 102(e) (Pub. L. 107-273) generally accords the same prior art date to references of the same application whether it was published as a US patent, a US patent application publication or a WIPO publication. There are limited situations where the US patent may have a different prior art date under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) than the corresponding US patent application publication or a WIPO publication. For example, when the application is based directly on the national stage (35 U.S.C. 371) of an International Application (IA) filed prior to November 29, 2000, however, the US patent has a different 35 U.S.C. 102(e) date for prior art purposes (the 35 U.S.C. 371 date) than the US application publication or the WIPO publication (no 102(e) date). Under the AIPA (prior to the Technical Amendments Act), a US patent application publication of an application could have a much earlier 35 U.S.C. 102(e) date than the corresponding US patent of that same application. This resulted from that fact that the prior art date under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) for US patent application publications could be the international filing dates (even prior to 11/29/00) if certain conditions were met, but US patents could never be prior art under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) as of the international filing date. Revised 35 U.S.C. 102(e) and 374 in Pub. L. 107-273 are applicable to all applications under examination, no matter when filed and all US patents under reexamination or being contested. 35 U.S.C. 102(e) and 374 per the AIPA (prior to the Technical Amendments Act) were only applicable to certain applications, e.g., those filed on or after November 29, 2000 or voluntarily published under 35 U.S.C. 122(b). Revised 35 U.S.C. 102(e) per Pub. L. 107-273 is applicable to all international applications filed on or after 11/29/00 (it does not require national stage entry in the United States). 35 U.S.C. 102(e) per AIPA (prior to Technical Amendments Act) required entry into the national stage in order to be applicable.