In a recent article, we discussed how courts have used patent specifications in finding that patents satisfy the Supreme Court’s Mayo/Alice test. However, the specification may be a double-edged sword ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guoquan Yang and Shuhui Huang of CCPIT explain how a ruling from the Supreme People’s Court over an Eli Lilly patent should determine the specificity of experiments described in patent applications ...

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 ...

Research tool patents typically claim methods or compositions used to discover novel, biologically important compounds and therapeutics. Patentees often try to maximize the rewards of their innovation ...