Patents--Prior Publication-Application of Section 102(b) to Plant Patents

Authors

Ira J. Jaffe S.Ed., University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

Appellant applied for a plant patent on two roses which he had developed. The Patent Office Board of Appeals affirmed the final rejection of the application on the basis of section 102(b) of the patent statute. Pictures and classifications of the varieties of roses sought to be patented had appeared in printed publications more than one year before appellant's application. On appeal, held, reversed. In order to bar issuance of a plant patent, a description in a printed publication must convey such knowledge as to place the invention within the public domain. In re LeGrice, 301 F.2d 929 (C.C.P.A. 1962).

Recommended Citation

Ira J. Jaffe S.Ed., Patents--Prior Publication-Application of Section 102(b) to Plant Patents, 61 Mich. L. Rev. 997 (1963).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol61/iss5/10