Legal Opinion
Special Devices, Inc. v. Oea, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 26, 2001No. 01-1053, 01-1078PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHEL, Circuit Judge.
OEA, Inc. appeals from a summary judgment by the United States District Court for the Central District of California holding OEA’s U.S. Patent No. 5,404,263 invalid because OEA had contracted with a supplier to have the patent’s commercial embodiment mass-produced more than one year before it filed a patent application, thereby invoking the on-sale bar under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b). See Special Devices, Inc. v. OEA, Inc., 117 F.Supp.2d 989, 995-96 (C.D.Cal.2000). OEA now invites us to create an exception to the on-sale bar, one that would allow inventors to stockpile…
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