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 ...

To ascertain whether a patent claim is definite, each coined term in the claim must be analyzed to determine whether the record supports a precise meaning. Definiteness applies principles of claim ...

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 ...

After Amgen the Supreme Court made what some believe to be significant changes to the law of enablement, finding that the 26 examples, 400+ pages of disclosure and information submitted on via CD ROM ...

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 ...