If an oral presentation describing an invention has been made at a conference of specialists in Japan, would the event be considered to have made the invention publicly known?
If the specialists do not have any obligation to maintain confidentiality of the invention, the oral presentation will constitute an event that results in the invention becoming publicly known.But if the specialists are actually obligated to keep the invention secret under certain regulations or if it is deemed that they were most likely obligated to do so, the event would not result in the invention becoming publicly known.
