Stop at Starbucks, get your favorite venti coffee and several treats(you’ll need them), find your favorite chair, and grab your Ipad, and link to Social Science Research Network. Joe Matel, who, currently, is the Judiciary Committee Counsel to Senator Jon Kyl, has presented his two part article, titled, “A Guide to the Legislative History of the America Invents Act (AIA)” to examine the origins and the legislative commentary on the provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, a comprehensive patent-reform law that the POTUS signed and enacted on September 16, 2011. The AIA adopts the first-to-file system of patent priority, modifies the defintion of prior art, and creates several new post-issuance administrative proceedings and amends existing proceedings. Part I of the article focuses on the AIA’s changes to sections 102 and 103 of title 35 and related issues. The article is organized by the sections of title 35 that are significantly amended by the AIA, and then by the uncodified sections of the AIA. 

Citation: (Matal, Joe, A Guide to the Legislative History of the America Invents Act: Part I of II (2012). 21 Fed. Cir. B.J. 435 (2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2064740)

Thank you to Patently O for bringing this to my attention.