Public-Use Bar: What Startups Need to Know
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 26, 2023
However, fewer startups are aware of the public-use bar and how activities pursued with the goal of growing their businesses may unwittingly invoke it.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 26, 2023
However, fewer startups are aware of the public-use bar and how activities pursued with the goal of growing their businesses may unwittingly invoke it.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
9,186,208 on surgical devices for a procedure called endometrial ablation were anticipated under the public use bar of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § The Federal Circuit then pointed out that at the time of the public use, the technology was “ready for patenting.” § 102(b).
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Patently-O
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
What is it that makes a use “public” for purposes of the public use bar? Does it matter whether the person doing the using is a member of the public, as opposed to the inventor? Or does it matter whether the use is itself in public, as opposed to taking place in secret behind closed doors?
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Patents Benjamin unpacked a patent royalties dispute between the University of Oxford and a student inventor, where the English High Court explained which categories of students should be treated as consumers for the purposes of consumer protection law, and why.
IP Intelligence
JULY 19, 2024
Patent claims, for example, require that all claims have a significant contribution by a human inventor. One such approach would be to indicate which examples are “actual working examples” from inventors and which are “prophetic examples” drafted by AI. persons may be deemed an export.” [2]
Patently-O
MAY 19, 2022
102(a) prior art asks whether the IPA invention was already the subject of a printed publication prior by the time the IPA inventors created their invention. Thus, a prior publication by inventors (or a subset of the inventors) does not count as prior art under 102(a). In re Katz, 687 F.2d 2d 450 (CCPA 1982).
Patently-O
AUGUST 22, 2022
And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” ” Compco Corp. Day–Brite Lighting, Inc. , Metallizing Engineering Co. Kenyon Bearing & Auto Parts Co., 2d 516 (2nd Cir.
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