ANTICIPATION

anticipation.  1.  The  distribution  or  receipt  of  trust  income  before  it  is  due.  2.Patents.  The

prior invention or disclosure of the claimed invention by another, or the inventor’s own disclosure

of the claimed invention by publication, sale, or offer to sell if that disclosure predates the date of

the  patent-application  filing  by  more  than  one  year.  •  By  disproving  the  claim’s  novelty,

anticipation  bars the  allowance  of  a  claim  and  provides  a  defense  to  an  action  for  infringement

based  on  that  claim.  See  NOVELTY(2).  [Cases:  Patents    50.1.  C.J.S.  Patents  §§  37,  40.]  —

anticipate,vb.

“Anticipation  implies  spoiling  something  for  someone,  by  getting  in  ahead;  obviously  this

can only be done by a device (or description of a device), and only to a patent.” Roger Sherman

Hoar, Patent Tactics and the Law 51 (3d ed. 1950). [Blacks Law 8th]