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45 Hous. L. Rev. 1101 (2008-2009)
Enabling Patent Law's Inherent Anticipation Doctrine

handle is hein.journals/hulr45 and id is 1115 raw text is: ARTICLE ENABLING PATENT LAW'S INHERENT ANTICIPATION DOCTRINE Janice M. Mueller* and Donald S. Chisum** TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 1102 II. ANTICIPATION BY INHERENCY REQUIRES INEVITABILITY OF RESULT ................................. 1108 A. Supreme Court Precedent ........................................... 1112 B. Federal Circuit Inconsistency on Inevitability ............................................................ 1116 C. Comparing the United Kingdom Approach ................ 1123 D. Inherent Anticipation Does Not Require Contemporaneous Recognition in the Prior Art of Inevitable Result ........................... 1127 III. PRIOR ART RELIED ON TO ESTABLISH INHERENT ANTICIPATION MUST SATISFY A HEIGHTENED ENABLEMENT STANDARD ........................... 1131 A. The Requirement that Anticipatory References Be Enabling: In General ........................... 1134 * Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. E-mail: mueller2@pitt.edu. We thank the organizers and participants of the University of Houston Law Center's 2008 Patent Law in Perspective Symposium, including Meg Boulware, Rebecca Eisenberg, John Golden, Paul Heald, Craig Joyce, Michael Meurer, Joe Miller, Arti Rai, Greg Vetter, and Elizabeth Winston. University of Pittsburgh School of Law student Helen Song provided valuable research assistance. ** Author, Chisum on Patents (LexisNexis 2008). Professor, University of Washington School of Law, 1969-1996; Inez Mabie Professor of Law, Santa Clara University Law School, 1997-2006. E-mail: dschisum@chisum.com. 1101

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