Wahl Instruments, Inc. And Robert Parker v. Acvious, Inc. And Kenneth J. McMillan

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• explaining that a \step or source or technique considered 'best' in a manufacturing circumstance may have been selected for a non-'best mode' reason\
• explaining that a \step or source or technique considered 'best' in a manufacturing circumstance may have been selected for a non-'best mode' reason\
• no violation of best mode where inventor concealed more cost-effective method to manufacture claimed device
• “How to mass produce the device is not, however, a best mode of [the] invention or part of what [was] invented.”
• no best mode violation where embedment molding did not affect how invention worked and inventor made own inserts rather than purchase them on the basis of cost considerations
• “The purpose of the best mode requirement is to restrain inventors from applying for a patent while at the same time concealing from the public preferred embodiments of their inventions which they have in fact conceived.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).