Stallings-Fields v. United States of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that operation of centrifuge in NIH laboratory, without “any discernable effort to maintain the centrifuge as confidential,” constituted public use; noting that “those who observed the centrifuge in operation were under no duty to maintain it as confidential”
• public use where original design was modified by third party and used exclusively by third party in laboratory, because inventor had no control over modifications
• “Experimental use negates public use; when proved, it may show that particular acts, even if apparently public in a colloquial sense, do not constitute a public use within the meaning of section 102”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).