Does public disclosure interfere with patenting?
To protect the patentability rights to your invention, it is important that you contact OTT as early as possible prior to public disclosure. Public disclosure includes Journal Articles, Publication on the Web, Conference Abstracts, Oral Presentation or Poster Presentations. Foreign patent rights are lost immediately upon public disclosure. In the U.S., you have one year from the date of the public disclosure to file a patent application.
