In re George

Documents distributed only internally within an organization under an existing policy or agreement of confidentiality are not printed publications regardless of the number of copies; research reports disseminated in-house to persons who understood an unwritten confidentiality policy were not printed publications.

Written by

A language model, from how the MPEP uses this case rather than from the opinion.

Confidence

high — self-reported, not calibrated against a measured error rate

Human review

Not reviewed by a person

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