The Li Second Family Limited Partnership v. Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.

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• affirming inequitable conduct judgment based in part on failure to disclose decision of PTO Board of Appeals in co-pending application
• affirming a finding of inequitable conduct where an applicant for semiconductor structure claims misrepresented the PTO's previous disposition with respect to related method of manufacture claims in another application pending before a different examiner
• affirming a finding of inequitable conduct where an applicant for semiconductor structure claims misrepresented the PTO’s previous disposition with respect to related method of manufacture claims in another application pending before a different examiner
• \Information concealed from the PTO may be material even though it would not invalidate the patent.\
• “Information concealed from the PTO may be material even though it would not invalidate the patent.”
• “[T]he test for materiality is whether a reasonable examiner would have considered the information important, not whether the information would conclusively decide the issue of patentability.”

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