KOCK v. QUAKER OATS CO.

No. 80-4072.

681 F.2d 649 (1982)

Bruce A. KOCK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The QUAKER OATS COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1982.

Rehearing Denied August 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney F. DeGoff, DeGoff & MacGowan, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Lawrence Rosenthal, Blum, Kaplan, Friedman, Silberman & Beran, New York City, for defendants-appellees.

Before WALLACE, KENNEDY, and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges.


KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

The appeal comes from a patent infringement suit where the trial court, within the confines of a summary judgment motion, determined the patent invalid. The court ruled that 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) (1976) operates to invalidate the patent because the invention had been on sale for longer than one year before the date of the patent application. All concede that certain rights to the invention were transferred by an agreement executed more than...

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