Legal Opinion
Securities & Exchange Commission v. Wencke
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 29, 1978No. Nos. 77-1645 to 77-1648 and 77-2146PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUFSTEDLER, Circuit Judge:
Lee Pharmaceuticals (“Lee”), a patent applicant, brought this action to compel the Patent Office to produce abandoned patent applications under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1977) and to consider such applications as evidence of prior art in evaluating Lee’s claims of patentability, under 35 U.S.C. § 131 (1970). Lee appeals from a judgment dismissing its complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. We affirm, holding that (1) abandoned patent applications are not producible under FOIA because section 122 of the…
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