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Patent Office Provides Slideshow to Examiners to Assist in Testing Claims for Statutory Subject Matter
As a supplement to the “instructions” discussed in my last post, the PTO has now provided a compact slideshow to Examiners to assist them in evaluating claims for statutorily patentable machines, processes or compostions of matter. Ironically,the flowcharts are a … Continue reading
Posted in USPTO Practice and Policy
Tagged patents, USPTO, USPTO examiner, Warren Woessner
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Federal Circuit Grants Ariad’s Petition for Rehearing En Banc to Settle WDR Hash.
At long last, the Federal Circuit will specifically address the questions of (a) whether or not section 112 contains a written description requirement separate from the enablement requirement and, if it does (b) what is its scope and purpose. Hopefully, … Continue reading
Posted in Written Description Requirements (WDR)
Tagged Ariad, Federal Circuit, patents, Warren Woessner, WDR
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Board Decision in Ex Parte Roberts Doesn’t Make the Cut
This 2008 pre-Bilski decision is of interest since the Board purportedly applied the Diamond v Diehr “standard” – “[t}ransformation and reduction of an article ‘to a different state or thing’ is the clue to the patentability of a process claim … Continue reading
Federal Circuit Mows Down Bean Patent – Reading Between the Rows
On July 10, 2009, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in In re Pod-Ners, Appeal No. 2008-1492, affirmed the Board’s rejection of all of the claims of U.S. Pat. No. 5,894,079. The Board had rejected as obvious claims … Continue reading