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· 12/9/2003

Cfmt, Inc. And Cfm Technologies, Inc. v. Yieldup International Corp.

Citations

  • 349 F.3d 1333
  • 2003 WL 22658238

How courts have described this case

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  • remanding for determination whether genuine issue of material fact required parties to proceed to trial on enablement issue
  • remanding for determination whether genuine issue of material fact required parties to proceed to trial on enablement issue
  • finding no material misrepresentation in part because a PTO examiner’s reasons for allowance did not reflect that the PTO relied on the allegedly false applicant statements
  • \Improvement and selection inventions are ubiquitous in patent law; such developments do not cast doubt on enablement of the original invention.\
  • lengthy experiments do not show nonenablement because the “inventors undertook that work to satisfy ... particular commercial requirements, not to show enablement of the scope of the claimed inventions”
  • Enablement is gauged “at the date of filing, not in light of later developments.”

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Judges: Rader, Friedman, Linn

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