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That filing date — April 7, 2017 — is the earliest effective priority date of the '015 Patent and establishes the temporal benchmark against which any prior-conception defense must be measured

The Federal Circuit has long required that a party asserting prior conception must corroborate the alleged conception through evidence from a source independent of the alleged prior inventor

Summary Judgment Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 A court "shall grant summary judgment if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law

The nonmoving party "must do more than simply show that there is some metaphysical doubt as to the material facts

The court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, drawing all reasonable inferences in its favor

However, the nonmoving party must come forward with evidence that would be sufficient to support a jury verdict in its favor; "[t]he mere existence of a scintilla of evidence" is not enough