prior sale

prior sale. Patents. Sale or offer of sale of an invention before a patent is applied for. • If the sale occurred more than one year before the application is filed, the patent is barred by statute. 35 USCA § 102(b). [Cases: Patents 76. C.J.S. Patents §§ 107, 110–111.]

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