Convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a judgment invalidating patents on ball grid sockets and loadless chip carriers. The Supreme Court unanimously adopted our suggestion to apply a "ready for patenting" standard for determining the validity of a patent under the statutory "on-sale bar," rejecting the Federal Circuit's "totality of the circumstances" test, the "actual reduction to practice" standard proposed by Pfaff and eight alternatives proposed by amici. 525 U.S. 55 (1998)