First publication definition

First publication means the first time any member of the general public (those outside the ECOE community), without confidentiality restrictions, had the opportunity of legal access to a written or printed description of the invention. The following could be considered, inter alia, as written public disclosures: presentations including slides, overheads, a computer display, blackboards or a posting on a website, or a dissertation submitted to the ECOE library.

Split View

AI-Powered Contracts

Draft, Review & Redline at the Speed of AI

Get StartedSchedule a Demo

First publication means the first time any member of the general public (without restriction of confidentiality) would have been able legally to gain access to your written or printed detailed description of the invention or the software (note that posters or slides used in an oral presentation count as written publications). In most other countries, filing must take place before either oral or printed disclosure is made available to the public; however, where there has been a U.S. filing before any disclosure, a one (1)-year grace period after the U.S. filing is granted for foreign filing. Specifically, “first public oral disclosure” means oral presentation to any member of the general public.

First publication means the first time any member of the public, which could include members of the Alfred community who are not aware of the need to keep an invention confidential, would have been legally able to gain access to the oral, written, or other enabling description of the invention without a confidentiality restriction.

Examples of First publication in a sentence

• Any information in this document does not constitute as a real-world replacement for any official procedure and any similar procedures set out here or influenced by online content is written under the Limited License provided by the used AISs. 2021/08 01 September 2021 First publication This Letter of Agreement becomes effective 01 September 2021.

• Language presented as Chibchan First publication ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (1897); ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (1920: 236–7) Dorasque, Kuna La Grasserie (1904) Nutabe, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ (1943a) ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ and Armellada (1950) ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ (1975), cited in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (1979: 942–4) In sum, as an undeniable genealogical unit, Chibchan was discovered piecemeal over a time span of about a hundred years, between 1886 and 1975 (cf.

• Any information in this document does not constitute as a real-world replacement for any official procedure and any similar procedures set out here or influenced by online content is written under the Limited License provided by the used AISs. 2021/08 01 September 2021 First publication This Letter of Agreement becomes effective 01 September 2021.

More Definitions of First publication

First publication means either issuance of a patent or publication of an application under Section 122(b), including publication of an international application (in any language) designating the U.S.