Legal Opinion
Monon Corporation and Rosby Corporation, Plaintiffs-Cross v. Stoughton Trailers, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 7, 2001No. 00-1041, 00-1042PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHEL, Circuit, Judge.
This appeal requires our determination of whether a patentee submitted sufficient evidence to preclude the grant of summary judgment of invalidity due to the on-sale bar. Oral argument was heard on October 3, 2000. Because we find that the paten-tee raised a genuine issue of material fact as to whether its sale of a tractor truck trailer prior to the critical date of its patent was primarily experimental, and thus was not a “commercial sale” for the purposes of 35 U.S.C. § 102(b), we reverse the trial court’s grant of summary judgment and remand for further proceedings…
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