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 ...

Chen, J. The Court affirmed the PTAB’s determination that the patent claim at issue was unpatentable as obvious. The Court held that the Board correctly construed the term “storage element.” In ...

The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...

Is it possible to patent biotech and pharmaceutical inventions globally using just one specification? John T Callahan and Ken Sakurabayashi of Sughrue Mion PLLC examine practice in the US, Japan and ...