Hybritech Incorporated v. Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding corroborative value in research notebooks that were either contemporaneously signed and witnessed, or prudently witnessed by other researchers within a reasonable time thereafter
• Federal Circuit reversed lower court’s finding that laboratory notebooks and internal documents witnessed months later failed to corroborate the inventor’s claimed invention
• inventor testimony of conception was sufficiently corroborated by inventor's laboratory notebook in which some entries were witnessed before the critical date but others were not
• “[A] patent need not teach, and preferably omits, what is well known in the art.”
• “[A] patent need not teach, and preferably omits, what is well known in the art.”

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