Rca Corporation v. Data General Corporation, Defendant/cross-Appellant

How courts have described this case

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• an offer or sale may invoke the statutory bar “even though no details are disclosed”
• “where there is no sale, a definite offer to sell is an essential requirement of the on-sale bar”
• “[E]xperimental use, which means perfecting or completing an invention to the point of determining that it will work for its intended purpose, ends with an actual reduction to practice.”
• “[T]hat the [allegedly anticipatory product anticipates] the claimed invention may be established by any relevant evidence, such as memoranda, drawings, correspondence, and testimony of witness.”
• “actual reduction to practice of the subject invention means, inter alia, that an actual embodiment which included all elements of the claim had been built”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).