Court Opinion

ID: 9446890
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:20:38.430602+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:49.075428
License: Public Domain

BIGGS, Chief Judge
(dissenting).
The court has extended greatly the patent misuse principle. This extension, applied full force, could prohibit a pat-entee from employing his invention as a component even in an apparatus of his own manufacture.
I conclude that the test body is a material element in the claimed invention, as the court below first held, and that Section 271, Title 35 U.S.C., may be applicable.
The issues involved are of such far-reaching importance as to render desirable rehearing before the court en banc.
For these reasons I must dissent from the order denying rehearing.