{"id":2018,"date":"2018-04-17T21:33:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2018-04-22T23:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T03:56:10","slug":"lack-of-corroboration-caused-claim-of-prior-invention-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Corroboration Caused Claim of Prior Invention to Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/17-1681.Opinion.4-13-2018.1.PDF\">Apto Miitors APS v. Kamstrup<\/a>, [2017-1681] (April 17, 2018) the Federal Circuit affirmed the Board&#8217;s determination that\u00a0U.S. Patent No. 8,893,559 was anticipated by\u00a0Nielsen, U.S. Patent App.\u00a0Pub. No. 2012\/0006127, finding\u00a0substantial evidence supported the\u00a0Board\u2019s finding that Apator failed to sufficiently corroborate the<br \/>\ninventor testimony of earlier conception.<\/p>\n<p>An inventor can swear behind a reference by proving\u00a0he conceived his invention before the effective filing date\u00a0of the reference and was diligent in reducing his invention\u00a0to practice after that date.\u00a0 However, that when a party seeks to prove conception<br \/>\nthrough an inventor\u2019s testimony the party must proffer\u00a0evidence corroborating the inventor\u2019s testimony.\u00a0\u00a0The sufficiency of the proffered corroboration is determined<br \/>\nby a \u201crule of reason\u201d analysis in which all pertinent\u00a0evidence is examined, but even under the rule of\u00a0reason analysis, the evidence of corroboration\u00a0must not depend solely on the inventor himself.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence of prior conception included emails sent by the inventor transmitting drawings and presentations, but the only identification of the attachments was by the inventor.\u00a0 The Federal Circuit noted the\u00a0catch-22 of corroboration: Apator attempts to corroborate the inventor&#8217;s testimony with the emails and the\u00a0drawings, but the emails and drawings can only provide\u00a0that corroboration with help from the inventor&#8217;s<br \/>\ntestimony.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit concluded that\u00a0a reasonable mind could conclude that Apator<br \/>\nfailed to proffer evidence corroborating the inventor&#8217;s\u00a0testimony regarding conception, and accordingly held\u00a0that substantial evidence supports the Board\u2019s finding<br \/>\nthat Apator has not established prior conception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Apto Miitors APS v. Kamstrup, [2017-1681] (April 17, 2018) the Federal Circuit affirmed the Board&#8217;s determination that\u00a0U.S. Patent No. 8,893,559 was anticipated by\u00a0Nielsen, U.S. Patent App.\u00a0Pub. No. 2012\/0006127, finding\u00a0substantial evidence supported the\u00a0Board\u2019s finding that Apator failed to sufficiently corroborate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2018\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}