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Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Commercial Offer for Sale

BakerHostetler

Substance Over Form - When a Quote May Constitute a Commercial Offer for Sale

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Recently the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment of no invalidity of a design patent under the on-sale bar provision of 35 U.S.C. § 102. Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., No. 2021-1649...more

Winstead PC

Patent Law: Making On-Sale Bar Jurisprudence Coherent

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“Rather than rest our decision on formalities, our focus is on what makes our on-sale bar jurisprudence coherent: preventing inventors from filing for patents a year or more after the invention has been commercially marketed,...more

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Federal Circuit Rules for The Medicines Company in Patent Litigation

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In an en banc decision on July 12, 2016 in The Medicines Co. v. Hospira, Inc., the Federal Circuit established the circumstances under which a product manufactured according to product-by-process claims is invalid under the...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Federal Circuit Clarifies the “Commercial Offer for Sale” Prong of the On-Sale Bar

On July 11, 2016, a unanimous Federal Circuit en banc affirmed that The Medicines Company’s (“TMC”) use of third-party contract manufacturing services did not invalidate U.S. Patent Nos. 7,582,727 and 7,598,343 (the...more

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