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inlawrev-18021	Brown, Christopher A.	Developments in Intellectual Property Law	2012	36	.pdf	application/pdf	16847	850	57	Ideally, the exceptions to prior art in the new Section 102 keep someone else’s disclosure or patent application that was derived from an inventor from being used as a reference against the inventor.53 That is, if someone obtains information from the inventor, whether directly (e.g., the inventor tells him) or indirectly (e.g. he takes information—legitimately or not—from the inventor), that person’s disclosure is not prior art to the inventor as long as any timing condition is met.54 As a practical matter, however, it is unclear how an inventor would establish before the PTO examiner that a reference in someone else’s name was obtained from the inventor. The examiner has no way of knowing whether an article, patent application, or other reference has information obtained from the inventor, and so he or she naturally will cite the reference against the inventor’s application in rejecting it.	cache/inlawrev-18021.pdf	txt/inlawrev-18021.txt