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Foreign To protect manufacturing investments and patent owners, the act would prohibit foreign courts are not permitted to eliminate from eliminating a company's US IP licenses in bankruptcy, in accordance with US law. The <ref name="sectionsummary" /> On the other hand, the act states pushes for plaintiffs to deal with manufacturers rather than retailers or end users selling products or using processes that without protecting infringe on a patent 's claims. <ref name="patentlyoIA" />Courts may stay customer suits and other IP licenses manufacturing investments would be uncertain and potentially at riskhear suits brought before manufacturers accused of infringing the same patent. <ref name="sectionsummarygovtracksummary" />
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Within the Innovation Act, several reforms are suggested to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. One of these reforms concerns codifying double patenting. <ref name="govtracksummary" /> Double patenting is when two patents are awarded for the same invention to one patent holder. The first-to-file (FTF) system was introduced in the American Invents Act and put into effect in March of 2013. In the FTF system, the first inventor to file for a patent has priority in protecting the idea. <ref name="entrepreneur" /> The Innovation Act applies the FTF system to double patenting restrictions. If a patent claim is filed on the same day or before a similar second patent, then the first patent will be deemed prior art to the second patent, preventing double patenting unless nonobvious subject matter can be proven. <ref name="govtracksummary" />
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