...conditions and requirements of this title. Section 102 reads In pertinent part : } 102. Condition* for patentability; novelty and loss of right to patent...of the application for patent In the United States • • •. •See, for example, In re Foster, 52 CCPA 1808, 343 P. 2d 980, 145 USPQ 166 (1965), cert,...

...useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. "§ 102. Conditions for patentability;...invention was first patented or caused to be patented, or was the subject of an inventor's certificate, by the applicant or his legal representatives or assigns...

...publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent. . . . (b) the invention was patented or described in a printed...of the application for patent in the United States. . . . (e) the invention was described in a patent granted on an application for patent by another filed...

...invention thereof by the applicant for patent, AND B. the invention was NOT patented or described in a Nb printed publication in this or a foreign country or...year prior to the date of the application for patent, AND • • G. ... Ng THEN H. it is obligatory that the applicant is granted a patent, h AND 3. IF...

...pertinent parts of the statute read as follows : § 102. Conditions for patentability; novelty and Joss of right to patent A person shall be entitled to a...States, or (c) he has abandoned the invention, or (e) the invention was described in a patent granted on an application for patent by another filed in...

...known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in (his or a foreign country, before the invention thereof...on sale in this country, more than one year prior (o the date of application for patent in the United States, or c. he has abandoned the invention, or...

...their relationship to the term "prior art," it is appropriate to look at the section in its entirety: 102, Conditions for patentability; novelty and loss...invention was first patented or caused to be patented, or was the subject of an Inventor's certificate, by the applicant or his legal representatives or assigns...

...(a) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a primed publication In this or a foreign country, before the...invention was first patented or caused to be patented, or was the subject of an Inventor's certificate, by the applicant or hU legal representatives or assigns...

...printed publication In this or a foreign country, before the Invention thereof by the applicant Tor patent, or (b) the invention was patented or described...invention was first patented or caused to be patented, or was the subject of an Inventor's certificate, by the applicant or his legal representativas or assigns...

...patentability; noi-elty and loss o] right to patent A person shall be entitled to a patent unless — (b) the invention was patented or described in a printed...of the application for patent in the United States * * * ' 35 USC §103 reads: §103. Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter A patent...