The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's determination that a patent specification did not provide written description support for range limitations in the ...

In a recent series of cases, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) evaluated whether examples in a patent specification will support infringement of alternative embodiments. Two recent ...

Patent claim limitations that are “negative”—that is, claim limitations specifying the absence of a particular element from the patent claim—can pose a dilemma in the written description context. How ...

Early this spring, in Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. v. Promega, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reviewed a district court opinion on the validity of an issued patent 1. The court ...

The scope and content of the patent specification is likely to determine the level of protection afforded EST and SNP inventions. Today, molecular biologists possess the tools to clone, sequence and ...

Aparna Kareer and Sneha Agarwal of Obhan & Associates discuss the provisions of Indian patent law under which experimental data is required, the nature of the data and submission stages Experimental ...

Exploring the state of pharma patents following the Supreme Court’s Amgen v. Sanofi decision. Lee (Harness IP): This is actually a huge-stakes case because this case discusses one of the most ...