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By Andrew F. Halaby Affirming the Federal Circuit, the Supreme Court on January 22 held that post-AIA section 102(a)(1)’s provision, A person shall be entitled to a patent unless . . . the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, (emphasis added), does not require that the invention “on sale” be “available to the public.” To be sure, the “on sale” bar historically has not required public availability, at least according to the Federal Circuit. (As the   Read More »