Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. v. WL Gore

United States Court of Appealsfor the Federal Circuit__________________________BARD PERIPHERAL VASCULAR, INC.AND DAVID GOLDFARB, M.D.,Plaintiffs/CounterclaimDefendants-Appellees,ANDC.R. BARD, INC.,Counterclaim Defendant-Appellee,v.W.L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC.,Defendant/Counterclaimant-Appellant.__________________________2010-1510__________________________Appeal from the United States District Court for theDistrict of Arizona in Case No. 03-CV-0597, Judge MaryH. Murguia.__________________________NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, dissenting.The court today holds that a person who performs therequested test of a material that is provided to him fortesting for a specified use, can then, when the test issuccessful, patent the material he was provided, for theuse for which it was tested. My colleagues hold that Dr.