Lecture 09 - Novelty 3

This lecture covers the statutory bars of 35 USC § 102(b) [pre-AIA], including consideration of the 'on-sale bar,' 'known or used by others,' the experimental use exception, and bars that result from 3rd-party activity.

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I have listened to most if not all of these many times and I have to say this one is a confusing mess and puts me to sleep not because of lack of interest. Too much material is crammed into the time and so lecturer is rushing to finish, not to be clear. Lecture Seems less prepared. Hard to tell what if any of it applies to after AIA patents and if not why not. This is sometimes a problem in the other lectures too. Always making excuses for court rulings even when inconsistent or just wrong. Sometimes that the court was just wrong is what is really obvious, like the corset ruling vs the paving ruling. The corset ruling was a bunch of misogynists deciding corsets don’t need to be tested. Why did the paving have to be tested on a TOLL road? It didn’t, but that court bought that BS. Would love to hear recordings of the class discussions. Screw Colgate and GM for stealing from poor inventors. I listen to lots of patent lawyer webinars, some apparently geared only toward practicing patent lawyers, and one thing for sure lawyers only look at the world thru their own eyes and have great difficulty communicating with lay people even educated ones, because they make little if any effort to.