Broad Claims May Broaden the Prior Art – The Federal Circuit Looks to Claim Scope in Applying the Analogous Art Test

Obviousness rejections are among the most, if not the most, frustrating rejections a patent applicant can face. The examiner typically assembles two or three old patents or published patent applications as prior art references, announces that a person of ordinary skill in
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Congress Takes Another Run at Section 101 – What the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act Would Mean for Software and Computer-Implemented Inventions

Few questions in patent law have caused clients more frustration than the most basic one of all – whether an invention is even eligible for a patent in the first place. Since the Supreme Court’s decisions in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank
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Defending the Patent Case – Make Sure to Serve This Interrogatory

Patent cases are very discovery intensive, and many courts now have “patent local rules” that provide regulated process by which plaintiffs disclose their infringement contentions (i.e., explanations of why the defendant’s acts infringe the plaintiff’s patent) and by which defendants disclose their
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