{"id":2561,"date":"2010-07-02T17:35:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T23:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2010-07-02T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T23:35:19","slug":"in-re-kite-and-hatton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"In re Kite and Hatton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are interested in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">KSR<\/span> issues, you will probably find the oral argument from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In re Kite and Hatton<\/span>, 2009-1579 (Fed. Cir. June 21, 2010)\u00a0\u00a0interesting.\u00a0 The appeal from the BPAI dealt with a patent claim directed at a method of killing bacteria on catheters.\u00a0 The applicants had discovered a way of killing all of the bacteria on the catheter as opposed to the prior art that just killed most of the bacteria.\u00a0 Since bacteria reproduces rapidly, this was a significant development.\u00a0 The panel was confronted with the issue of whether this was just a new use of a known product (killing all of the bacteria as opposed to some).\u00a0 My pro-applicant bias might be showing here; but, if it were obvious to kill all bacteria on a catheter using this method why wouldn&#8217;t others have adopted it long ago?\u00a0 Perhaps it was because some of\u00a0the prior art relied on\u00a0was directed at\u00a0the water treatment and oil field water flooding\u00a0fields\u00a0rather than\u00a0the catheter field . . . .<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/mp3\/2009-1579.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can read the court&#8217;s Rule 36 opinion here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/09-1579.pdf\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are interested in KSR issues, you will probably find the oral argument from In re Kite and Hatton, 2009-1579 (Fed. Cir. June 21, 2010)\u00a0\u00a0interesting.\u00a0 The appeal from the BPAI dealt with a patent claim directed at a method of killing bacteria on catheters.\u00a0 The applicants had discovered a way of killing all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}