The grace period is the one year time period before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, which can be the foreign priority filing date.
The concept of a grace period is taken from the language of 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1) which defines exceptions to public disclosures as set forth in 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1).
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