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Patent Trial and Appeal Board Agrees Fluorescing Germs with UV Light is Too Obvious to Patent

Robert Yale Lary, Jr., and Jeffrey Lee Kornacki applied to patent a method of processing a food, an animal hide or a hard surface involving the use of ultraviolet light to fluoresce pathogens. The Patent Examiner rejected the claims as obvious. The inventors appealed. In a Decision dated Feb. 7, 2022, the Patent Trial and…

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