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).
