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Ex Parte Baird

10 Cited authorities

  1. Kyocera Wireless v. I.T.C

    545 F.3d 1340 (Fed. Cir. 2008)   Cited 120 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Finding public accessibility when the reference was contained in a book sold to the public

  2. In re Klopfenstein

    380 F.3d 1345 (Fed. Cir. 2004)   Cited 77 times   18 Legal Analyses
    Holding that whether a reference is publicly accessible is based on the “facts and circumstances surrounding the reference's disclosure to members of the public”

  3. In re Hall

    781 F.2d 897 (Fed. Cir. 1986)   Cited 95 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding "that competent evidence of the general library practice may be relied upon to establish an approximate time when a thesis became accessible"

  4. In re Lister

    583 F.3d 1307 (Fed. Cir. 2009)   Cited 36 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a reference archived in an on-line database searchable by keyword qualified as printed publication

  5. In re Cronyn

    890 F.2d 1158 (Fed. Cir. 1989)   Cited 65 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a thesis presentation made to a handful of faculty and not catalogued or indexed in a "meaningful" way was not a printed publication

  6. Application of Bayer

    568 F.2d 1357 (C.C.P.A. 1978)   Cited 43 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a thesis housed, but neither shelved nor catalogued, within a university library was not publicly accessible

  7. Section 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty

    35 U.S.C. § 102   Cited 6,012 times   1009 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting the grant of a patent to one who "did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented"

  8. Section 1 - Establishment

    35 U.S.C. § 1   Cited 516 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Noting that Congress did not intend to change these "narrowing interpretations"

  9. Section 6 - Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    35 U.S.C. § 6   Cited 186 times   63 Legal Analyses
    Giving the Director authority to designate "at least 3 members of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board" to review "[e]ach appeal, derivation proceeding, post-grant review, and inter partes review"

  10. Section 134 - Appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    35 U.S.C. § 134   Cited 98 times   30 Legal Analyses

    (a) PATENT APPLICANT.-An applicant for a patent, any of whose claims has been twice rejected, may appeal from the decision of the primary examiner to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, having once paid the fee for such appeal. (b) PATENT OWNER.-A patent owner in a reexamination may appeal from the final rejection of any claim by the primary examiner to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, having once paid the fee for such appeal. 35 U.S.C. § 134 July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 801; Pub. L. 98-622