Kenyon Bearing & Auto Parts Co., the Second Circuit found a patented process invalid due to the inventor’s public use prior to one year before the filing date.[14] The inventor in Metallizing had a patent “for the process of ‘so condition a metal surface that the same is, as a rule, capable of bonding thereto applied spray metal to a higher degree than is normally procurable with hitherto known practice,’” or simply stated, a patent for the process called… [read post]