{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s2185","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f2185.","heading":"Prior art","text":"\u00a7\u202f2185.\nPrior art\nIn connection with applications for patents covered by this subchapter, the fact that the invention or discovery was known or used before shall be a bar to the patenting of such invention or discovery even though such prior knowledge or use was under secrecy within the atomic energy program of the United States.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s2185.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s2185","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f2185."},{"t":"heading","text":"Prior art"},{"t":"content","text":"\n","children":[{"t":"p","text":"In connection with applications for patents covered by this subchapter, the fact that the invention or discovery was known or used before shall be a bar to the patenting of such invention or discovery even though such prior knowledge or use was under secrecy within the atomic energy program of the United States.","tail":"\n"}]},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}