Single Reference Obviousness
Patent – Patently-O 2017-09-24
Summary:
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., v. SFC Co. Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2017). The decision here is important as one example of a single-reference obviousness decision upheld by the Federal Circuit on appeal. Here, the prior-art is a published international patent application also owned by the patentee and with overlapping (but not identical) inventorship. Idemitsu’s U.S. Patent […]