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I hear that under the newly passed patent law, there's a first inventor defense available to a charge of patent infringement. If I don't have that defense available to me, can I buy a company that does, and then assert the defense myself?
No. If you buy a company that is entitled to assert a first inventor defense, that company (presumable as a subsidiary of your new, larger company) alone would be able to assert that defense. Only the location(s) where that acquired company had the defense available to it (if still part of the merged company) would be able to assert the defense.
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