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Cyrus Morton gave this example of how patent law has changed under the new America Invents Act.
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Passed in September 2011, the final phases of the America Invents Act went into effect in March. Cyrus Morton, a partner at the Minneapolis office of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi said this law represents the biggest change since the 1950s.

“This bill spent eight years in Congress and finally got passed when this administration pitched it as a jobs bill,” he said.

At the MedTech Investing conference in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Morton offered seven tips for how medical device companies should manage intellectual property and patent applications under the new law.

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