On December 13, 2013, in Suprema, Inc. v. Int'l Trade Comm'n, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Prost, O'Malley,* Reyna) affirmed-in-part, vacated-in-part and remanded-in-part the Commission's...more
[T]here is no "supplier exception" to the on-sale bar, [and] it is of no consequence that the "commercial offer for sale" [was] made by [the patentee's] own supplier and was made to [the patentee] itself....more
On July 22, 2013, in Novozymes A/S v. DuPont Nutrition Biosciences APS, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Rader, Schall,* Bryson) affirmed the district court's judgment as a matter of law that U.S. Patent No....more
When the Board relies upon a new ground of rejection not relied upon by the examiner, the applicant is entitled to reopen prosecution or to request a rehearing [unless the applicants] have had fair opportunity to react to the...more