Patent Prosecutors Beware –Catalog Distributed to “Members Only” is Indeed a Printed Publication

August 21, 2018

A catalog distributed at a members-only trade show was found to be a printed publication under 35 USC § 102(b).1 The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a Board decision finding that an IPR challenger’s catalog distributed at a trade show was not sufficiently available to the general public to qualify as a printed publication. The Federal… Read more »