Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/273
Timestamp: 2016-08-25 09:41:09
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 273', '§\u202f1000', '§\u202f4302', '§\u202f5', '§\u202f5', '§\u202f1000', '§\u202f4303']

35 U.S. Code § 273 - Defense to infringement based on prior commercial use | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
(a)In General.—A person shall be entitled to a defense under section 282(b) with respect to subject matter consisting of a process, or consisting of a machine, manufacture, or composition of matter used in a manufacturing or other commercial process, that would otherwise infringe a claimed invention being asserted against the person if—
(1)Premarketing regulatory review.—
(2)Nonprofit laboratory use.—
(d)Exhaustion of Rights.—
(B)Transfer of right.—
(C)Restriction on sites.—
(2)Derivation.—
(3)Not a general license.—
(4)Abandonment of use.—
A person commercially using subject matter to which subsection (a) applies may not assert a defense under this section if the claimed invention with respect to which the defense is asserted was, at the time the invention was made, owned or subject to an obligation of assignment to either an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)),[1] or a technology transfer organization whose primary purpose is to facilitate the commercialization of technologies developed by one or more such institutions of higher education.
(f)Unreasonable Assertion of Defense.—
(g)Invalidity.—
(Added Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4302(a)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–555; amended Pub. L. 112–29, § 5(a), Sept. 16, 2011, 125 Stat. 297.)
Pub. L. 112–29, § 5(c), Sept. 16, 2011, 125 Stat. 299, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [amending this section] shall apply to any patent issued on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Sept. 16, 2011].”
Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, subtitle C, § 4303], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–557, provided that: “This subtitle [enacting this section and provisions set out as a note under section 1 of this title] and the amendments made by this subtitle shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1999], but shall not apply to any action for infringement that is pending on such date of enactment or with respect to any subject matter for which an adjudication of infringement, including a consent judgment, has been made before such date of enactment.”