presumption of enablement : CAFC Alert

CAFC clarifies the presumption that prior art is enabled after In re Antor Media Corp (Fed. Cir. 2012)

| April 10, 2013

In re Steve Morsa

April 5, 2013

Panel:  Rader, Lourie and O’Malley.  Opinion by O’Malley.

Summary

The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) had affirmed an Examiner’s finding that a short press release, relied on for an anticipation rejection, was enabling.  In making its decision, the Board had held that arguments alone by the applicant were insufficient to rebut the presumption that a reference was enabling.  The CAFC found that the Board and the examiner had failed to engage in a proper enablement analysis of the reference and vacated the anticipation finding.


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