The on-sale bar of 35 U.S.C. 102 is a United States patent law term that means if an invention has been for sale for over one year, it is no longer patentable.
Read more about On-sale Bar: 35 U.S.C. 102(b), MPEP 2133.03(b) "On Sale" - 2100 Patentability
Famous quotes containing the word bar:
“‘Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You’d treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown.’”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)