How does public disclosure affect patenting?
To protect the patentability rights to your invention, it is important that you contact KSURF as early as possible prior to public dislcosure. Public disclosure includes journal articles, publication on the Internet, conference abstracts, oral presentations or poster presentations. Foreign patent rights are lost immediately upon public disclosure. In theU.S., you have one year from the date of the public disclosure to file a patent application. Click here for more information on public disclosure.
