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In re Katz

Citations

  • 687 F.2d 450
  • 215 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 14
  • 1982 CCPA LEXIS 110

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that patentee made a sufficient showing based on inventor’s declaration that he was the sole inventor and explanation regarding the co-authors’ contribution to the publication
  • “Disclosure to the public of one’s own work constitutes a bar to the grant of a patent claiming the subject matter so disclosed (or subject matter obvious therefrom).”
  • “[A]uthorship of an article by itself does not raise a presumption of inventorship with respect to the subject matter disclosed in the article.”

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Judges: Baldwin, Markey, Miller, Nies, Rich

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Cites

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