The Safe Harbor of 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1): The Costly Confusion About the Scope of "Patented Invention"

The exact term of exclusionary rights over a patented invention begins on the day the associated patent issues and terminates twenty years from its earliest application's filing date.2. Id.The interval over which an inventor may enforce a patent is often around seventeen years because patents often grant two to three years after their earliest filing date.3. 35