Fed Circuit Watch: Enabling Scope of Design Patent Claims Expands – Greatly
In a potentially ground-breaking decision in design patent prosecution, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down In re Maatita, on August 20, 2018. The facts are as follows. Ron...
Fed Circuit Watch: Another §101 Decision, Different Rationale, May Signal Future Changes to Patent-Eligibility Analysis
As of February 14, 2018, at last count, there have been six substantive opinions rendered by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit relating to 35 U.S.C. §101, creating an unusually large body...
McAward as Precedential and Lower Standard for Indefiniteness During Prosecution
Way back on August 25, 2017, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office designated Ex parte McAward as precedential authority for defining the USPTO and the PTAB’s policy on assessing indefiniteness as...
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