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Philips Electronics Can't Overturn Interference Ruling

By Mark Walters

In the United States (at least for the time being), the first person to invent has superior rights in a dispute involving multiple claims covering the same subject matter. According to a decision by the USPTO's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, an inventor at Philips Electronics, Morgan, was not the first to invent certain defibrillator methods claimed in US Patent No. 6,241,751. The

Full post as published by Washington State Patent Law Blog on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).