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Section 112 Written Descriptions Claim Limitations

McDermott Will & Schulte

Specification controls: Written description must be clear

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s decision upholding patent validity, finding that the subject patent’s specification clearly established that the written description failed to...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Federal Circuit Denies Petition for Rehearing en Banc in Biogen Int'l GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.

On March 16th, the Federal Circuit denied Biogen's petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in Biogen Int'l GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.  Judges Cunningham and Stoll did not participate in the decision, which...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Actavis Laboratories v. Nalproprion Pharmaceuticals

In the Supreme Court's recent clarifying campaign through the Federal Circuit's U.S. patent law jurisprudence, one section of the statute, 35 U.S.C. §112(a) has been noticeably left unscathed. Indeed, avoidance of this...more

Knobbe Martens

Large Quantity of Routine Experimentation Can Be “Undue Experimentation”

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IDENIX PHARMACEUTICALS LLC v. GILEAD SCIENCES INC. Before Prost, Newman, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Synthesizing and screening tens of thousands of...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Understanding the USPTO’s Interpretation of 35 U.S.C. § 112 for Computer-Implemented Functional Claim Limitations

Patent practitioners, inventors, in-house counsel, and patent examiners alike have been clamoring for more guidance on computer-implemented functional claim limitations invoking § 112(f) since the Federal Circuit’s en banc...more

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