Discussing determination of priority of invention under § 102(g), and noting that "§ 102(g) prior art can be used for § 103", id. at 1371 n. 1, 231 USPQ 84 n. 1
Holding that notebook entries not witnessed until several months to a year after entry did not render them "incredible or necessarily of little corroborative value" under the circumstances and in view of other corroborating evidence
Holding that "[e]ach application in the chain must describe the claimed features" and that if "one of the intervening applications does not describe" the subject matter, the later application cannot claim the benefit of the earlier application
Holding that the grant of a preliminary injunction was based on more than an unwarranted presumption of irreparable harm where the district court found the patentee would suffer lost market position and obstructed business relationships in the market
Holding that " party asserting invalidity based on 35 U.S. § 112 bears no less a burden and no fewer responsibilities than any other patent challenger"
Holding that where all claims of the reexamined patent are "in the category of a 'proposed amended or new claim determined to be patentable and incorporated following a reexaminationproceeding,'" "the patentee has no rights to enforce [a non-identical, amended claim] before the date of reissue because the original patent was surrendered and is dead" (quoting 35 U.S.C. § 252) (first emphasis added)
Stating that "[t]he mere fact that a certain thing may result from a given set of circumstances is not sufficient" to establish inherency (quoting Hansgirg v. Kemmer , 102 F.2d 212, 214 (C.C.P.A. 1939) )
Fed. R. Evid. 201 Cited 29,623 times 26 Legal Analyses
Holding "[n]ormally, in deciding a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, courts must limit their inquiry to the facts stated in the complaint and the documents either attached to or incorporated in the complaint. However, courts may also consider matters of which they may take judicial notice."
35 U.S.C. § 112 Cited 7,362 times 1046 Legal Analyses
Requiring patent applications to include a "specification" that provides, among other information, a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it