[T]here is no “supplier exception” to the on-sale bar, [and] it is of no consequence that the “commercial offer for sale” [was] made by [the patentee’s] own supplier and was made to [the patentee] itself.
On August 14, 2013, in Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. v. Sunbeam Prods., Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the