---
kind: "section"
citation: "35 U.S.C. § 104"
title: "35"
title_heading: "Patents"
number: "104"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 112–29, § 3(d), Sept. 16, 2011, 125 Stat. 287"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/35/104"
units:
  - "Part II — Patentability of Inventions and Grant of Patents"
  - "Chapter 10 — Patentability of Inventions"
---

# [§104. Repealed. Pub. L. 112–29, § 3(d), Sept. 16, 2011, 125 Stat. 287 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 798; Pub. L. 93–596, § 1, Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949; Pub. L. 94–131, § 6, Nov. 14, 1975, 89 Stat. 691; Pub. L. 98–622, title IV, § 403(a), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3392; Pub. L. 103–182, title III, § 331, Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2113; Pub. L. 103–465, title V, § 531(a), Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4982; Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4732(a)(10)(A)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–582; Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13206(b)(1)(B), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1906; Pub. L. 112–29, § 20(j), Sept. 16, 2011, 125 Stat. 335, related to inventions made abroad.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective upon the expiration of the 18-month period beginning on Sept. 16, 2011, and applicable to certain applications for patent and any patents issuing thereon, see section 3(n) of Pub. L. 112–29, set out as an Effective Date of 2011 Amendment; Savings Provisions note under section 100 of this title.