1. 3 rd party statutory bar activity Patent Law 3.9.04

4. Baxter timeline Suaudeau and Ito build centrifuge at NIH 5.14.75: Cullis Critical Date 5.14.76: Cullis Files Pat App

5. Issues on appeal Was Suaudeau & Ito’s use “public”? Was it “experimental” – not yet completed? –Different standards for 3 rd party experimentation, vs inventor’s own experimentation?

6. Newman dissent Opposes “secret prior art” –See Pitlick p 609 3 rd party 102(b) art should be narrowly limited –“liberal” test of publicness Consistent with policies?

7. WL Gore v Garlock

8. Facts Gore patented invalidated – Cropper prior art Cropper letter –See Abbott v Geneva

9. Budd Co. use Confidential – see p 612 Sale of tape vs sale of sale of machine (subject of patent) Woodland Trust: p. 614 – make sense?