美國案的問題 - 專利

這個問題，應該再特別留意 MPEP 2137

專利工程師所提供的概念，應視為衍生概念。

MPEP 2137:

While derivation will bar the issuance of a patent to the deriver, a
disclosure by the deriver, absent a bar under 35 U.S.C. 102(b), will not bar
the issuance of a patent to the party from which the subject matter was
derived. In re Costello, 717 F.2d 1346, 1349, 219 USPQ 389, 390-91 (Fed. Cir.
1983)

衍生概念是不准允衍生者取得專利權的事由。但是衍生者的揭露，不會造成不准發明人取
得專利權的事由。

Derivation requires complete conception by another and communication of that
conception by any means to the party charged with derivation prior to any
date on which it can be shown that the one charged with derivation possessed
knowledge of the invention. Kilbey v. Thiele, 199 USPQ 290, 294 (Bd. Pat.
Inter. 1978).

"Adoption of the ideas and materials from another can become a derivation."


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