Invention Conception Not Sufficiently Corroborated, Federal Circuit Rules

Mealey's (April 18, 2018, 12:54 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A final written decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that two claims of an ultrasonic consumption meter patent were anticipated and rendered obvious by prior art was affirmed April 17 by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, amid findings that a patent owner failed to adequately corroborate an inventor’s testimony of conception and reduction to practice (Apator Miitors ApS v. Kamstrup A/S, No. 17-1681, Fed. Cir.)....