Legal Opinion
Rengo Co. Ltd. And Simon Container MacHinery Limited, in No. 80-2556 v. Molins MacHine Company, Inc., in No. 80-2557
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 20, 1981No. 80-2556, 80-2557PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to decide the proper role for the patent law concept of “synergism,” the proposition that to serve as the subject of an enforceable patent a combination of known elements must somehow exceed the sum of its parts. Additionally, we are faced with questions regarding *537the priority to be accorded a foreign patent application and the scope of disclosure in a domestic application. Because we believe that the district court — which decided that the patent in question was not enforceable — erred in imposing a synergism requirement, we…
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