Eaton v. Evans
Feb 02, 2000OUTCOME: PTO Board decision vacated and remanded
United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (the "PTO Board") awarding priority of invention to Joseph T. Evans, Jr. ("Evans") for a nonvolatile, ferroelectric m ... emory cell. See Evans v. Eaton, Patent Interference No. 102,727 (Bd. Pat. App. &Int. Mar. 1, 1996) (Final Decision); Evans v. Eaton, Patent Interference No. 102,727 (Bd. Pat.App. & Int. Nov. 19, 1998) (Reconsideration Decision). Because the CAFC held that the PTO Board erred as a matter of law in finding that Evans reduced the count to practice by December 1986, the CAFC vacated the PTO Board's priority determination and remanded for further findings regarding Evans's date of reduction to practice and Eaton's dates of conception and reduction to practice.
