Interference No. 103,146
At the time of the Shore field visits, Eric Shore
was employed by Edwards as a product manager in the marketing
department. BR1429. It was one of his jobs to act in a
liaison role with the engineers to make sure that the products
they developed would be acceptable to the segment of the
public that used the equipment. BR1435. Shore also was to
determine the features that Edwards’ customers wanted, and he
talked to customers and sale reps to find this out. BR1453-
54. He also had input into pricing decisions. BR1459. Shore
typically did not get formal confidentiality agreements from
hospital personnel to whom he showed prototypes, although he
testified that he would sometimes orally inform them that
information he imparted was disclosed confidentially. BR1458.
On the dates of December 10-12, 1980, Shore, along
with the Edwards sales representative for the respective
areas, visited hospitals in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio and
Chicago, Illinois to demonstrate a somewhat crude prototype of
the latex disk embodiment of a closed loop injectate system.
BX-16; BR1472-1476. The prototype demonstrated was crude,
i.e., handmade, not to manufacturing tolerances, unsterile,
“strictly [for] show and tell.” BR1488-9. The prototype was
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