Does a statutory bar preventing an inventor from commercially exploiting their invention apply to a patent?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Omark Industries, Inc. v. Carlton Co., 212 USPQ 413, 652 F.2d 783 (9th Cir. 1980):

The policy underlying this statutory bar "is to prevent an inventor from extending the period of patent monopoly by commercially exploiting the invention before applying for a patent." Del Mar Eng. Labs v. Physio-Tronics, 642 F.2d 1167, 1169 (9th Cir. 1981); see Pickering v. Holman, 459 F.2d 403, 406 (9th Cir. 1972).

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